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'INSTRUCTION' OF LAW ENFORCERS
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country-lra hos17006.html
11:54:48 - 02/03/2010
On these days, the replacement of leaders of a number of Armenian
Law Enforcement Bodies such as the Police, Prosecutor's office and
the National Security Service is much spoken about. Alongside with
these talks, a number of events took place such as Saribek Sukiasyan's
arrest, the violence of the Police against the HAK young activists,
assault against the photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan in front the
prosecutor's office etc. The Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan
issued rough statements in connection with the activities of the Law
Enforcement Bodies, especially the Police and the judicial system.
Besides, "compliments" were exchanged by the Police and the
Prosecutor's office. Let us not forget the warning about a bomb placed
in the Office of the State Revenue Committee. All this happened
against the background of the fact that in the European field, the
March 1-2 events became again actual.
All this confusion can be also assessed as normal because in normal
countries there are counterbalances and mechanisms of public control.
A similar situation, with big reservations, was formed during Levon
Ter-Petrosyan's tenure. Anyway, then, there was some mechanism of
counterbalance between the Police, the Prosecutor's office and the
National Security in which the army was sometimes involved. After,
during Robert Kocharyan's tenure, the law enforcers were allocated a
clear function: they were to defend the newly-formed system of quotas,
influence zones and law of shadow budget from the society. The task of
the law enforcers was to secure the uninterrupted work of the system.
During Serge Sargsyan's tenure, the law enforcement system is apparent
to be "splitting". The point is that neither the former system nor
the legal mechanism of the government can be a basis for him. Hence,
the law enforcement system does not have a new instruction to work
and appeared in an evident confusion: the former methods of their
activities do not suit the current situation, and acting within the
frameworks of the law is not recommended.
Of course, we can think that by changing the heads of the law
enforcement system, in the end, constitutional mechanisms can be
introduced into the system. But the reality is different. The essence
of the Armenian government excludes such a possibility. The power
is able to survive only thanks to illegal mechanisms because it does
not have the support of the public, because it is not formed through
constitutional mechanisms. The result may be that if before, this
system had the role of defending the life of the criminal-oligarchic
state, now its role will be diminished and it will defend the interests
of a small group of people from the others who do not have access
to it.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country-lra hos17006.html
11:54:48 - 02/03/2010
On these days, the replacement of leaders of a number of Armenian
Law Enforcement Bodies such as the Police, Prosecutor's office and
the National Security Service is much spoken about. Alongside with
these talks, a number of events took place such as Saribek Sukiasyan's
arrest, the violence of the Police against the HAK young activists,
assault against the photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan in front the
prosecutor's office etc. The Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan
issued rough statements in connection with the activities of the Law
Enforcement Bodies, especially the Police and the judicial system.
Besides, "compliments" were exchanged by the Police and the
Prosecutor's office. Let us not forget the warning about a bomb placed
in the Office of the State Revenue Committee. All this happened
against the background of the fact that in the European field, the
March 1-2 events became again actual.
All this confusion can be also assessed as normal because in normal
countries there are counterbalances and mechanisms of public control.
A similar situation, with big reservations, was formed during Levon
Ter-Petrosyan's tenure. Anyway, then, there was some mechanism of
counterbalance between the Police, the Prosecutor's office and the
National Security in which the army was sometimes involved. After,
during Robert Kocharyan's tenure, the law enforcers were allocated a
clear function: they were to defend the newly-formed system of quotas,
influence zones and law of shadow budget from the society. The task of
the law enforcers was to secure the uninterrupted work of the system.
During Serge Sargsyan's tenure, the law enforcement system is apparent
to be "splitting". The point is that neither the former system nor
the legal mechanism of the government can be a basis for him. Hence,
the law enforcement system does not have a new instruction to work
and appeared in an evident confusion: the former methods of their
activities do not suit the current situation, and acting within the
frameworks of the law is not recommended.
Of course, we can think that by changing the heads of the law
enforcement system, in the end, constitutional mechanisms can be
introduced into the system. But the reality is different. The essence
of the Armenian government excludes such a possibility. The power
is able to survive only thanks to illegal mechanisms because it does
not have the support of the public, because it is not formed through
constitutional mechanisms. The result may be that if before, this
system had the role of defending the life of the criminal-oligarchic
state, now its role will be diminished and it will defend the interests
of a small group of people from the others who do not have access
to it.
From: Baghdasarian