La fin des manifestations pacifiques

National Security Service of Armenia forced to admit sending agents to opposition rally.



Armenia’s National Security Service acknowledged that the two men detained in Yerevan’s Liberty Square for allegedly urging opposition supporters to resort to violencewere its employees, Radio Liberty Armenian service reports. Organizers of the rallies held by supporters of ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said the men agitated for a violent overthrow of the government and secretly recorded protesters’ reaction to their calls. Their recording devices were laid out on a table in a nearby café where the two National Security Service agents were forcibly taken by opposition activists before being handed over to police officers.
In a written statement, Armenia’s National Security Service condemned the detention and exposure of its two agents and warned organizers of the “illegal rally” against making further attempts to hamper “professional activities” of these and other security officers. The statement said security service agents were in fact helping to ensure the security of the protesters.
Ter-Petrosyan and his top allies insisted that the exposed National Security Service agents were tasked with provoking the peaceful demonstrators into taking violent actions and thereby substantiating government allegations that the ex-President is bent on seizing power by force.
The Armenian authorities’ crackdown on the radical opposition has until now focused on prominent figures close to Ter-Petrosyan, Radio Liberty Armenian service notes. At least six of them have already been remanded in pre-trial on a string of criminal charges, including illegal arms possession and assault, radio says.

source - Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review