Protesters held a rally against PM Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian government outside the country's Investigative Committee building on Monday.
The footage shows protesters, including Bagrat Galstanyan, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, marching through the city with flags, smoke bombs and mirrors. Several demonstrators can be seen chaining themselves together.
According to opposition movement 'Tavush for the Homeland', the mirrors were intended to show law enforcement officers the 'reality' of what they were doing, if a crackdown on the demonstration took place.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanyan himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Protesters with mirrors in Yerevan burn smoke flares amid anti-PM Pashinyan rally outside Armenian Investigative Committee
Protesters held a rally against PM Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian government outside the country's Investigative Committee building on Monday.
The footage shows protesters, including Bagrat Galstanyan, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, marching through the city with flags, smoke bombs and mirrors. Several demonstrators can be seen chaining themselves together.
According to opposition movement 'Tavush for the Homeland', the mirrors were intended to show law enforcement officers the 'reality' of what they were doing, if a crackdown on the demonstration took place.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanyan himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Protesters held a rally against PM Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian government outside the country's Investigative Committee building on Monday.
The footage shows protesters, including Bagrat Galstanyan, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, marching through the city with flags, smoke bombs and mirrors. Several demonstrators can be seen chaining themselves together.
According to opposition movement 'Tavush for the Homeland', the mirrors were intended to show law enforcement officers the 'reality' of what they were doing, if a crackdown on the demonstration took place.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanyan himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.