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"PARTY SUICIDE BOMBERS" VS. SOCIETY
HAKOB BADALYAN
15:12 19/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28455
The decision of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Shirak on the
case of Mataghis caused different reactions within the society.
Besides happiness and excitement, there is also the opinion that the
decision of the court has nothing in common with real justice. Though
the accused young men have been acquitted, those guilty have not been
revealed and punished.
All this is clear. The unclear thing is the tendency to break or
eliminate what the society can consider its victory, even if it is
the result of some government scenario.
After all, if the situation makes the authorities fulfill one order
or another which matches the public interest, this means that the
government has to take that step, otherwise it would never care for
the public interest. Consequently, the success of the public interest
must not be eliminated but generated to inspire in the society that
its efforts can lead to success, and this will become a precondition
for bigger success.
After all, if the government freed the political prisoners, it
was part of a scenario but this does not mean that the political
prisoners should not be released and the society should have called
on them to return behind the bars. The political prisoners were not
even acquitted, they were granted pardon.
The case of Mataghis is not the renaissance of the system of justice.
There are many other unknown innocent people in jails in Armenia.
Certainly, the Mataghis case is not the symbol of the government's
reform. It is a pure calculation, necessity for the authorities.
However, as a result, three innocent conscripts who were sent to jail
on the basis of evidence obtained through violence are now free. How
else can this be called if not justice? Is this not the success of
people, political figures, journalists, human rights defenders who
fought for them? What is this then?
What is the meaning of efforts to confront this success with lack of
success on other fronts or to present it as a reason for the lack
of success in other spheres? Whose plan, whose jealousy or whose
imprudence is this that makes some people squash this success?
There was a similar situation in Mashtots Park, after the victory
achieved there.
Jealousy has become a political weapon against civility in Armenia.
This weapon is quite effective because it is not only at the propaganda
but also psychological level. It is very difficult to fight this
level not only for the civil society but also for all those living
weapons, zombie people who become the first victims of their weapon,
"suicide bombers of the party".
Here, no one wins but the party and governmental systems, which
maintain the civil-political status quo where they hold inter-party,
inter-political bargaining with commercial secrets, and all the other
trading rules. The only thing left to do is to allow the establishment
of political rules in the civil sphere, and as soon as outlines are
noticed in the far, the "party suicide bombers" are immediately landed.
HAKOB BADALYAN
15:12 19/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28455
The decision of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Shirak on the
case of Mataghis caused different reactions within the society.
Besides happiness and excitement, there is also the opinion that the
decision of the court has nothing in common with real justice. Though
the accused young men have been acquitted, those guilty have not been
revealed and punished.
All this is clear. The unclear thing is the tendency to break or
eliminate what the society can consider its victory, even if it is
the result of some government scenario.
After all, if the situation makes the authorities fulfill one order
or another which matches the public interest, this means that the
government has to take that step, otherwise it would never care for
the public interest. Consequently, the success of the public interest
must not be eliminated but generated to inspire in the society that
its efforts can lead to success, and this will become a precondition
for bigger success.
After all, if the government freed the political prisoners, it
was part of a scenario but this does not mean that the political
prisoners should not be released and the society should have called
on them to return behind the bars. The political prisoners were not
even acquitted, they were granted pardon.
The case of Mataghis is not the renaissance of the system of justice.
There are many other unknown innocent people in jails in Armenia.
Certainly, the Mataghis case is not the symbol of the government's
reform. It is a pure calculation, necessity for the authorities.
However, as a result, three innocent conscripts who were sent to jail
on the basis of evidence obtained through violence are now free. How
else can this be called if not justice? Is this not the success of
people, political figures, journalists, human rights defenders who
fought for them? What is this then?
What is the meaning of efforts to confront this success with lack of
success on other fronts or to present it as a reason for the lack
of success in other spheres? Whose plan, whose jealousy or whose
imprudence is this that makes some people squash this success?
There was a similar situation in Mashtots Park, after the victory
achieved there.
Jealousy has become a political weapon against civility in Armenia.
This weapon is quite effective because it is not only at the propaganda
but also psychological level. It is very difficult to fight this
level not only for the civil society but also for all those living
weapons, zombie people who become the first victims of their weapon,
"suicide bombers of the party".
Here, no one wins but the party and governmental systems, which
maintain the civil-political status quo where they hold inter-party,
inter-political bargaining with commercial secrets, and all the other
trading rules. The only thing left to do is to allow the establishment
of political rules in the civil sphere, and as soon as outlines are
noticed in the far, the "party suicide bombers" are immediately landed.