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15 Dec 2011

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EcoLur Network

Tension in Qajaran village not reducing [Armenia]

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Another phase of tension in Qajaran Village...in regard with villagers’ refusal to give their land areas to Zangezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine...[V]illagers beat an alarm signal to EcoLur that Village Head Rafik Atayan was taken to the police station...Villagers expressed their concern that the police were trying to exercise pressure on Atayan...to make him sign the agreement with ZCMC...In his telephone conversation with EcoLur he said...that negotiations were conducted in regard with transfer of land, but not with the police. “It doesn’t matter, we won’t give our lands,” he said. Villagers demand to call back the government decisions, because if ZCMC proceeds to the mine development next to the village, the whole village will have to be displaced...

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