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Samvel Karapetyan: 'Kurds respect natural laws of our homeland better
than Armenians'
http://hetq.am/eng/news/21475/samvel-karapetyan-kurds-respect-natural-laws-of-our-homeland-better-than-armenians.html
13:56, December 12, 2012
Samuel Karapetyan, the oft-outspoken president of the Research on
Armenian Architecture NGO, has lambasted Armenians for being out of
synch with the natural world of the Armenian Highlands.
In a YouTube video, Karapetyan argues that Armenians are as much to
blame for the losses sustained from natural disasters, notably
earthquakes that plague our region.
`The Armenian Highlands have one problem, earthquakes, as the
resultant losses we have suffered as a result are just as much our
doing. Nature periodically conducts inspections in various guises. If
one lives correctly, respecting the laws of water and land, you
continue to live. If not, you are buried in the cemetery.'
He then cites the example of the 1988 Spitak earthquake and the huge
losses suffered by Armenia due to shoddy construction practices,
especially during the tenure of Karen Demirchyan. (First Secretary of
the Communist Party of Armenia, 1974-1988)
`All the pre-Soviet buildings, including the Stalinist and Khrushchev
type edifices, had cracks after the earthquake, but they also saved
lives. Not one building constructed during the rule of Demirchyan
remains erect.'
The specialist of Armenian historical architecture goes on to say
that the 2011 earthquake that hit Van, just as powerful as the Spitak
one, only claimed the lives of 100 people.
`It's simply a shame that the Kurds respect the laws of our homeland
better than we do. You won't see a house over four stories in Van,'
says Karapetyan.
In his video, Karapetyan also proposes that the Gyumri Brotherly
Cemetery be renamed the Karen Demirchyan Cemetery.
`That's his legacy. Those buildings that sent thousands of Armenians
to their graves were built under his tenure.'
than Armenians'
http://hetq.am/eng/news/21475/samvel-karapetyan-kurds-respect-natural-laws-of-our-homeland-better-than-armenians.html
13:56, December 12, 2012
Samuel Karapetyan, the oft-outspoken president of the Research on
Armenian Architecture NGO, has lambasted Armenians for being out of
synch with the natural world of the Armenian Highlands.
In a YouTube video, Karapetyan argues that Armenians are as much to
blame for the losses sustained from natural disasters, notably
earthquakes that plague our region.
`The Armenian Highlands have one problem, earthquakes, as the
resultant losses we have suffered as a result are just as much our
doing. Nature periodically conducts inspections in various guises. If
one lives correctly, respecting the laws of water and land, you
continue to live. If not, you are buried in the cemetery.'
He then cites the example of the 1988 Spitak earthquake and the huge
losses suffered by Armenia due to shoddy construction practices,
especially during the tenure of Karen Demirchyan. (First Secretary of
the Communist Party of Armenia, 1974-1988)
`All the pre-Soviet buildings, including the Stalinist and Khrushchev
type edifices, had cracks after the earthquake, but they also saved
lives. Not one building constructed during the rule of Demirchyan
remains erect.'
The specialist of Armenian historical architecture goes on to say
that the 2011 earthquake that hit Van, just as powerful as the Spitak
one, only claimed the lives of 100 people.
`It's simply a shame that the Kurds respect the laws of our homeland
better than we do. You won't see a house over four stories in Van,'
says Karapetyan.
In his video, Karapetyan also proposes that the Gyumri Brotherly
Cemetery be renamed the Karen Demirchyan Cemetery.
`That's his legacy. Those buildings that sent thousands of Armenians
to their graves were built under his tenure.'