Despite the title of Garin Hovannisian’s documentary on Armenia’s 2018 “velvet revolution” being I Am Not Alone, journalist/activist/Congressman Nikol Pashinyan was exactly that at the movement’s beginning. Word came down that former president Serzh Sargsyan was to be voted in as the nation’s latest Prime Minister—an unjust and demoralizing development considering he had used the last term of his presidency to change laws and ensure that new office would effectively keep him in controlling power. Because Pashinyan refused to simply let that happen without a fight, he organized an eighteen-day march towards the capital city of Yerevan in order to block politicians from entering the Parliamentary building and thus prevent the vote. Rather than join thousands of protestors upon his arrival, only a couple hundred showed up.
Instead of letting that be the end of it, Pashinyan rallied students, stormed the government-sponsored radio station,...
Instead of letting that be the end of it, Pashinyan rallied students, stormed the government-sponsored radio station,...
- 9/17/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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