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Thousands of Armenians participated in a march in the capital Yerevan today, Saturday, to commemorate the soldiers who were killed in the six-week conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where Azerbaijan made great gains on the ground..
The conflict and the killing on the Armenian side increased pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to submit his resignation amid accusations from the opposition of mismanaging the conflict for accepting the ceasefire brokered by Russia last month..
Pashinyan, accompanied by senior officials, led the march that took place on the first day of a three-day mourning to the Yrabipur Military Cemetery to visit the graves of the dead soldiers..
Despite the crowd of his supporters in the entire cemetery, he appeared on Armenian television criticizing Pashinyan, chanting “Nicole traitor” as his motorcade passed by under heavy guard..
The Armenian opposition called on its supporters to join a nationwide general strike on December 22, at the end of the mourning period, to pressure Pashinyan to resign due to the losses suffered by the country in the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh..
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