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FAREWELL LETTER: ARDENT OPPOSITIONIST ACCUSES HIS PARTY OF "FALSE ELECTIONS" AND RESIGNS
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
20.07.10 | 16:10
News
Discords continued within the opposition Armenian National Movement
(HHSh) as Karapet Rubinyan, a prominent HHSh member, spread an open
letter on Facebook social network on Monday, announcing that he could
not tolerate the recent rigged election of the HHSh board chairman.
"According to my observations and the information that I possess,
the recent elections of HHSh board chairman and members at the
July 17 party congress were rigged. This is a very strange and sad
event because it took place in a party, which has liberal-democratic
principles; a party, which being part of the Armenian National Congress
[ANC] is complaining about and struggling against unfair and rigged
elections in 2008 for more than two years," wrote Rubinyan, who is a
co-founder of the Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners
and Persecuted in Armenia and himself was kept in jail for 71 days
after the March 1 post-election clashes in 2008.
At the same time, Karen Karapetyan, head of the HHSh news service, also
resigned, reasoning that the head of the HHSh news service must be one
of the HHSh administration members, whereas his candidacy has not been
nominated for being or not being included in the administration staff.
The HHSh congress was preceded by the resignations of vice-chairman
of the party Khachatur Kokobelyan and later party chairman Ararat
Zurabyan. The speculation was that they were holding negotiations
with authorities.
Rubinyan is especially irritated by the fact that at the congress
the leader of the opposition (Levon Ter-Petrosyan), referring to the
Karabakh issue, instead of speaking about further plans of the struggle
spoke about the baseless nature of the struggle: "It is all the same,
if there is no concession, nothing would come out."
Both persons who resigned told ArmeniaNow that they have received no
response from HHSh yet.
"I posted my open letter on the website [Facebook] late last
night, and I will refrain from comments for a week," Rubinyan told
ArmeniaNow. Karapetyan says that he remains a rank-and-file HHSh
member.
From: A. Papazian
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
20.07.10 | 16:10
News
Discords continued within the opposition Armenian National Movement
(HHSh) as Karapet Rubinyan, a prominent HHSh member, spread an open
letter on Facebook social network on Monday, announcing that he could
not tolerate the recent rigged election of the HHSh board chairman.
"According to my observations and the information that I possess,
the recent elections of HHSh board chairman and members at the
July 17 party congress were rigged. This is a very strange and sad
event because it took place in a party, which has liberal-democratic
principles; a party, which being part of the Armenian National Congress
[ANC] is complaining about and struggling against unfair and rigged
elections in 2008 for more than two years," wrote Rubinyan, who is a
co-founder of the Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners
and Persecuted in Armenia and himself was kept in jail for 71 days
after the March 1 post-election clashes in 2008.
At the same time, Karen Karapetyan, head of the HHSh news service, also
resigned, reasoning that the head of the HHSh news service must be one
of the HHSh administration members, whereas his candidacy has not been
nominated for being or not being included in the administration staff.
The HHSh congress was preceded by the resignations of vice-chairman
of the party Khachatur Kokobelyan and later party chairman Ararat
Zurabyan. The speculation was that they were holding negotiations
with authorities.
Rubinyan is especially irritated by the fact that at the congress
the leader of the opposition (Levon Ter-Petrosyan), referring to the
Karabakh issue, instead of speaking about further plans of the struggle
spoke about the baseless nature of the struggle: "It is all the same,
if there is no concession, nothing would come out."
Both persons who resigned told ArmeniaNow that they have received no
response from HHSh yet.
"I posted my open letter on the website [Facebook] late last
night, and I will refrain from comments for a week," Rubinyan told
ArmeniaNow. Karapetyan says that he remains a rank-and-file HHSh
member.
From: A. Papazian