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MYSTERY BEHIND HARSNAQAR PLOT: CRY OF THE SOUL OR FAKE ALARM
tert.am
02.07.12
In case the Defense Ministry serviceman, who wanted to blow up
the Harsnaqar restaurant, turns out to have been driven by genuine
emotions, his move will be considered a protest against the reality,
according Harnush Hakobyan, an ethnographer.
"I mean the reality in which any one of us can be beaten to death
in case of doing something - walking down the stairs with the left
instead of the right foot, for instance - not pleasing [the owner of
Harsnaqar] Ruben Hayrapetyan," she told Tert.am.
Security guards at the Harsnaqar restaurant severely beat three
military doctors on their premises on June 17. One of them, Major
Vahe Avetyan, who was the most seriously affected, died in hospital
on Friday, after remaining unconscious for about a fortnight. The
beatings had caused serious damages to his brains, creating conditions
incompatible with life.
Avetyan's death sparked strong protests in the society, particularly
in the social networking site Facebook, where users actively condemned
the incident, demanding the strictest punishment for the perpetrators.
A 39-year old lieutenant-colonel of the Armenian Army, Vardan
Samvelyan, entered Harsnaqar at about 2:15 am on Sunday, threatening
to blow up the complex. Only after three-hour talks with a police
special task force, was he rendered harmless and taken to the police
department of Yerevan's Nork-Marash district.
Commenting on the servicemen's attempted bomb attack, Kharatyan said
she doesn't think it to be a Lynch trial. She is more inclined to
consider the incident a cry of the soul, aimed to call the public
attention to the ciolent act.
The founder of Sardarapat initiative, Zhirayr Sefilyan, says it is
hard to say at the moment what pushed the high-ranking servicemen to
the act.
"Both motives are possible. [He] might have done that in the heat of
passion; but that might have as well been an artificial act," he said.
Speaking to Tert.am, an activist of Sardarapat, film director Tigran
Khzmalyan said the servicemen's motives are not the first thing to
be addressed.
"It would be very wrong for us, as a society, to restrict the entire
problem to Harsnaqar. It would mean we fail to find the true problem
and focus only on fake targets," he noted.
The activist proposed instead turning Harsnaqar into a youth palace.
"It is necessary likewise to return the brothels and saunas to the
society - the youth, the children and the elderly," he said.
Heritage party member Stepan Safaryan has shared his thoughts on
Facebook.
"[Is this] real revenge? A chance to strengthen the security guarantees
of Harsnaqar, its owner, especially after the recent days' public
rage and demonstration against the slaughterhouse; a kind of the
public revolt or a way of imparting a sense of comfort or ...? The
story looks strange to me ..." said the former parliament member in
his public profile.
Levon Barseghyan, the founder of the Gyumri-based journalists' club
Asparez, considers the attempted explosion an emotion-driven step.
"An officer of that rank would have blown up the [the complex] if
he had wanted to, and no one would have known anything," he said,
characterizing the action as that of a man who was in a state of
affection at the time of taking the step.
tert.am
02.07.12
In case the Defense Ministry serviceman, who wanted to blow up
the Harsnaqar restaurant, turns out to have been driven by genuine
emotions, his move will be considered a protest against the reality,
according Harnush Hakobyan, an ethnographer.
"I mean the reality in which any one of us can be beaten to death
in case of doing something - walking down the stairs with the left
instead of the right foot, for instance - not pleasing [the owner of
Harsnaqar] Ruben Hayrapetyan," she told Tert.am.
Security guards at the Harsnaqar restaurant severely beat three
military doctors on their premises on June 17. One of them, Major
Vahe Avetyan, who was the most seriously affected, died in hospital
on Friday, after remaining unconscious for about a fortnight. The
beatings had caused serious damages to his brains, creating conditions
incompatible with life.
Avetyan's death sparked strong protests in the society, particularly
in the social networking site Facebook, where users actively condemned
the incident, demanding the strictest punishment for the perpetrators.
A 39-year old lieutenant-colonel of the Armenian Army, Vardan
Samvelyan, entered Harsnaqar at about 2:15 am on Sunday, threatening
to blow up the complex. Only after three-hour talks with a police
special task force, was he rendered harmless and taken to the police
department of Yerevan's Nork-Marash district.
Commenting on the servicemen's attempted bomb attack, Kharatyan said
she doesn't think it to be a Lynch trial. She is more inclined to
consider the incident a cry of the soul, aimed to call the public
attention to the ciolent act.
The founder of Sardarapat initiative, Zhirayr Sefilyan, says it is
hard to say at the moment what pushed the high-ranking servicemen to
the act.
"Both motives are possible. [He] might have done that in the heat of
passion; but that might have as well been an artificial act," he said.
Speaking to Tert.am, an activist of Sardarapat, film director Tigran
Khzmalyan said the servicemen's motives are not the first thing to
be addressed.
"It would be very wrong for us, as a society, to restrict the entire
problem to Harsnaqar. It would mean we fail to find the true problem
and focus only on fake targets," he noted.
The activist proposed instead turning Harsnaqar into a youth palace.
"It is necessary likewise to return the brothels and saunas to the
society - the youth, the children and the elderly," he said.
Heritage party member Stepan Safaryan has shared his thoughts on
Facebook.
"[Is this] real revenge? A chance to strengthen the security guarantees
of Harsnaqar, its owner, especially after the recent days' public
rage and demonstration against the slaughterhouse; a kind of the
public revolt or a way of imparting a sense of comfort or ...? The
story looks strange to me ..." said the former parliament member in
his public profile.
Levon Barseghyan, the founder of the Gyumri-based journalists' club
Asparez, considers the attempted explosion an emotion-driven step.
"An officer of that rank would have blown up the [the complex] if
he had wanted to, and no one would have known anything," he said,
characterizing the action as that of a man who was in a state of
affection at the time of taking the step.