Opposition leader LevonTer-Petrosyan address his supporters in a rally Sunday, marking the one year anniversary of last March 1’s deadly conflict, telling a few thousand supporters that: “ “the authorities did nothing to punish the real trespassers” of last year’s deadly clashes.

Vowing that his followers are resolute, the first president of Armenia said: “People are no more afraid of prisons and violence, they will not retreat, they will not be disappointed... It is high time for the authorities to understand that their efforts to depress the nation, to make people speechless are destructive not only for people but also for themselves.”

Speaking to the masses since the first time since opposition meetings were suspended last October, Ter-Pertosyan vowed that current authorities will find it hard to “overcome the current crisis in contrast to the crisis in the beginning of 1990’s, because that time the world economy was able to supports states to overcome it, whereas now the world economy itself is paralyzed.”

The former president then led a march through central Yerevan, carefully watched by state authorities who had earlier vowed that all means would be implemented to assure that no disorder would be permitted.