this decentralized strategy worked! they have detained Nikol, but realized it does not matter. Nikol did not control the situation. everybody was self-organizing and showing the government has no control over population. we with IT people created a couple of telegram groups to coordinate our civil disobedience actions. police was running from here to there, and they had no enough forces to control everything. they were asking each other for support and people, and had no resources, though we have a lot of police, unfortunately.

authorities were desperate, they detained leaders of the movement, then started to use criminals to threaten protesters. just unknown guys in masks, armed, got out to streets and started to beat protesters.

that caused even more waves of disobedience and more people at the evening protests. around 180.000 people in one of recent meetings.

so they realized they have no country to rule and have to leave. DDOS - Distributed Denial of Serj worked.

The ruling republican party seems dead. They are nothing without the head. And the dictators seem to surround them by toads, so they have even noone to replace them. They cannot trust those toads they nurtured for years.

That’s probably one of the reasons why Serj tried to stay for the third time. They just had noone to trust.

I am very proud of my people, who did not tolerate Serj, and it is indeed unbelievable that we succeeded without a drop of blood. we had several injured people, when police was trying to pressure us, not more than 10.

And Nikol said during the rally - “remember that christian saying, give the second cheek, if someone heat you? every one who answers to violence with violence is against our movement, because it will make government an excuse to use the force.”

So this was sort of other example of satyagraha, when nobody was listening to the regime, and people on streets were supporting protesters by signalling. first days they did not get it, and was annoyed, but after three days most of them were happy we are blocking streets. many people around were joining us, and drivers were getting out of the cars, and behaving like the cars are broken, so they have to repair those.

and the very emotional thing is showing open palms of hands. whenever police were trying to pressure people, they were showing open palms of hands, raised up, that they are not armed, it’s peaceful protest. this was very impressive and beautiful.

բնօրինակ սփիւռքում(եւ մեկնաբանութիւննե՞ր)