”What is being celebrated, Serzh?” – The action in memory of the victims in Armenia

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”What is being celebrated, Serzh?” – The action in memory of the victims in Armenia

 On the 9th of April the action in memory of the victims of the broken up demonstrations on the 1-2 of March took place in Kiev near the Armenian Embassy.
The 9th of April is the date of the 40 days since the tradegy has happened, and it is also the President inauguration in Armenia.

Picket was organized by the representatives of the World Youth Movement for Democracy and was supported by the Armenian
human rihgts defenders and members of the Youth Human Rights Movement – Ukraine.

The participants didn’t make any political demands. They held only white linen with black ribbones, pinks and candels. «We have nothing to say, everything was said. We don’t understand what can be celebrated today», – says Anastasia Nikitina, the member of the WYMD work committee and the YHRM participant. Young people laid wreathes.

SvD: Armeniska oppositionella greps

SvD: Många döda i protester

 

Action week “Stop racism”

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International network – Youth Human Rights Movement
Youth network against racism and intolerance
                          International movement ‘Young Europe»

Brief description of situation with intolerance and xenophobia in Russia and Ukraine :

Russian Federation

According to the monitoring of the informational and analitic center «Sova», the number of hate crimes has being rising up. Up to the December 2007 there was information about 632 victims of attacks, including 67 murdered people. Antifascists has become the special target group of neo-nazi’s violence: form the beginning of 2008 year already several young activists were killed by radicals.

As for mirgation issue, the constanst increase of migrantophobia has remained due to the new law adopted by goverment last year.