The 11th day of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_presidential_election,_2008" class="extiw" title="en:Armenian presidential election, 2008">Armenian presidential election protests</a>.  At 7:30 am, the peaceful "camp-in" protest at Liberty Square in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yerevan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a> was violently ended by Armenian special forces which used truncheons and electric shock devices to disperse the crowd of around 1,000.  At 12:30 pm, a new crowd marches to the French Embassy in a spontaneous demonstration.<br><br>In this picture, at 1:30pm, a police armored personnel carrier with a working large-caliber machine gun turret just arrives.  Eventually the unarmed and peaceful people will completely surround the APC, mount it, and force it out of the square.  (The APC is a 1966 Soviet <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BTR-60" title="BTR-60">BTR-60PB</a> with sighting system and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=KPV_heavy_machine_gun&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="KPV heavy machine gun (page does not exist)">KPV heavy machine gun</a>.)
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Serouj" title="User:Serouj">Serouj</a>
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