The World : 400,000 Armenians Rally
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About 400,000 people jammed the main square of Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia, and heard renewed demands for annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Christian Armenian enclave in the mainly Muslim republic of Azerbaijan, activists reported. Rafael Popoyan, one of the activists, said many residents in the capital who struck last Friday remained off the job, vowing to stay away until the Armenian Parliament meets in a new session to reconsider their plea to annex the region. Popoyan said members of the Karabakh Committee, a group pressing for annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, told the crowd that one-third of the republic’s 230-member Supreme Soviet signed a request for a new session.
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