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Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society24090.html
Published: 10:58:45 - 07/11/2011
Yerkir Media TV news reported another case of suicide on November 5.
According to the report, an employee of the Kanaker-Zeytun territorial
tax service, Armen Galstyan, 39, committed suicide.
It may sound cynical since human lives and tragedies are concerned,
but Armenia seems to have become a kind of regional center of
suicides. While the authorities are trying to render the country a
financial, healthcare and other center, Armenia gradually is gradually
becoming a suicide center.
Though a considerable part of the society does not believe those are
really suicides, considering the efforts to qualify cases as
`suicides' to avoid `headache', to cover up or to avoid efforts to
reveal the crimes.
The public believes that a similar method is used in the army where
`suicides' have become part of the army routine recently. Similar
doubts were expressed about the death of the owner of Aray Company,
who also reportedly committed a `suicide'.
The public will always have doubts. Moreover, this public was formed
during the Soviet Union and was `forced' to live in independent
Armenia. Both in the Soviet period and during the independence, the
authorities have never enjoyed the confidence of the public. The
public always looked for some hidden treachery in their actions
because the public was isolated from the process of forming the
authorities and the state.
But now the problem is not just the attitude and confidence of the
society but the great number of suicides in a country which has major
demographic issues. Here, it is senseless to refer to statistics like
the army leadership does while dwelling on suicides in the army,
reporting a decreasing rate every year.
Whenever human lives are considered, statistics becomes unnecessary.
What difference does it make how many fewer people died if we witness
so many suicides one after another?
Again it may sound cynical but only the rate of dismissals and
resignations can be compared to the rate of suicides in Armenia.
What is the cause of so many suicides? Each case has its own cause.
Naturally, they have an `individual' group of reasons, or at least one
individual reason. But deep inside, the common phenomenon is some
general downfall, as the twenty years of independence of Armenia are
marked with news reports on suicides or attempts.
Perhaps, the reason is that in the past 20 years the so-called
leadership of the independence, willingly or unwillingly, instilled in
citizens with their activities a total feeling of despair which is
rooted in the public conscience of Armenia. People are sure that there
is no way out. This feeling is so deep in the public conscience that
it transforms into the individual and personal behavior of each
person.
In this situation, emigration becomes a wonderful way out because
there is a way to bring back the citizen who emigrated in despair,
while there is no way to bring back the one who committed suicide in
despair
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society24090.html
Published: 10:58:45 - 07/11/2011
Yerkir Media TV news reported another case of suicide on November 5.
According to the report, an employee of the Kanaker-Zeytun territorial
tax service, Armen Galstyan, 39, committed suicide.
It may sound cynical since human lives and tragedies are concerned,
but Armenia seems to have become a kind of regional center of
suicides. While the authorities are trying to render the country a
financial, healthcare and other center, Armenia gradually is gradually
becoming a suicide center.
Though a considerable part of the society does not believe those are
really suicides, considering the efforts to qualify cases as
`suicides' to avoid `headache', to cover up or to avoid efforts to
reveal the crimes.
The public believes that a similar method is used in the army where
`suicides' have become part of the army routine recently. Similar
doubts were expressed about the death of the owner of Aray Company,
who also reportedly committed a `suicide'.
The public will always have doubts. Moreover, this public was formed
during the Soviet Union and was `forced' to live in independent
Armenia. Both in the Soviet period and during the independence, the
authorities have never enjoyed the confidence of the public. The
public always looked for some hidden treachery in their actions
because the public was isolated from the process of forming the
authorities and the state.
But now the problem is not just the attitude and confidence of the
society but the great number of suicides in a country which has major
demographic issues. Here, it is senseless to refer to statistics like
the army leadership does while dwelling on suicides in the army,
reporting a decreasing rate every year.
Whenever human lives are considered, statistics becomes unnecessary.
What difference does it make how many fewer people died if we witness
so many suicides one after another?
Again it may sound cynical but only the rate of dismissals and
resignations can be compared to the rate of suicides in Armenia.
What is the cause of so many suicides? Each case has its own cause.
Naturally, they have an `individual' group of reasons, or at least one
individual reason. But deep inside, the common phenomenon is some
general downfall, as the twenty years of independence of Armenia are
marked with news reports on suicides or attempts.
Perhaps, the reason is that in the past 20 years the so-called
leadership of the independence, willingly or unwillingly, instilled in
citizens with their activities a total feeling of despair which is
rooted in the public conscience of Armenia. People are sure that there
is no way out. This feeling is so deep in the public conscience that
it transforms into the individual and personal behavior of each
person.
In this situation, emigration becomes a wonderful way out because
there is a way to bring back the citizen who emigrated in despair,
while there is no way to bring back the one who committed suicide in
despair