{"id":2977,"date":"2020-12-19T05:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=141224"},"modified":"2020-12-19T05:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:27:06","slug":"pashinian-to-lead-procession-to-mourn-those-killed-in-fighting-over-nagorno-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/19\/pashinian-to-lead-procession-to-mourn-those-killed-in-fighting-over-nagorno-karabakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pashinian To Lead Procession To Mourn Those Killed In Fighting Over Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5243539C-750E-48F7-B5FE-F573E87BB3FC_cx0_cy5_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will lead a procession on December 19 in Yerevan to mourn people who died in six weeks of fierce fighting in and around the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinian <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikol.pashinyan\">said on Facebook<\/a> the mourning procession will begin at 1 p.m. and will travel from Republic Square to the Erablur Military Pantheon.<\/p>\n<p>His spokesman Mane Gevorgian told local media on December 18 that Pashinian will lead the procession.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia has declared a three-day mourning period beginning December 19. Prayer services for the fallen will be held at churches nationwide on December 20.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinian has been under fire since agreeing to a Moscow-brokered deal with Azerbaijan that took effect on November 10, ending the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>His opponents want him to quit over what they say was his disastrous handling of the conflict that handed Azerbaijan swaths of territory ethnic Armenians had controlled since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Some mothers of soldiers who were killed said in a statement quoted by Interfax that they will not allow Pashinian onto the grounds of the pantheon.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the opposition plans a rally beginning at 3 p.m. on December 19 to renew calls for Pashinian\u2019s resignation. They also plan another rally on December 22 and are urging Armenians to stage a national strike the same day, Interfax reported.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by Interfax<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/19\/pashinian-to-lead-procession-to-mourn-those-killed-in-fighting-over-nagorno-karabakh-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will lead a procession on December 19 in Yerevan to mourn people who died in six weeks of fierce fighting in and around\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}