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  • "If I Used The Word 'Brute' Incorrectly, I Can Apologize," Hovhannes

    "IF I USED THE WORD 'BRUTE' INCORRECTLY, I CAN APOLOGIZE," HOVHANNES SAHAKYAN SAYS

    February 25 2013

    For a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, not only batons, weapons,
    and water cannons constitute brute force Hovhannes Sahakyan, the
    secretary of the RPA parliamentary group said to Radio Liberty the
    other day that the government "doesn't use any brute force for now,
    although it has the right to do that." www.aravot.am inquired of him
    today whether the government did a favor to people by not using brute
    force, or he just wanted to restrain the opposition with those words.

    He replied: "I, as a lawyer, can give a long lecture about the
    possibilities and impossibilities of using brute force, about right
    and wrong. I can explain what using brute force or using force means.

    Force is never soft or nice. Force is crude. To me, brute meant crude.

    If I chose the word 'brute' incorrectly, I can apologize to the public
    for that." We asked to clarify whether they should use weapons against
    the people, he explained: "No, brute doesn't only mean weapons. For
    example, not to allow them to hold a rally." In response to our
    question what methods should be used not to allow, batons, he said:
    "If, for you, the only way of not allowing is batons, let it be batons
    too. However, for me, it is not batons, weapons, water cannons, or
    barbed wire. Police officers can just forbid them to participate,
    by creating a human wall, for example. However, let me make a short
    excursion related to brute force, since there were some journalists
    who tried to criticize. For your information, I can give a lecture,
    if necessary. The state and the government have the monopoly on the
    use of coercive force. The state and the government are separated in
    theory, but in practice, they are equated. An NGO, which is a part
    of civil society, cannot use force. And the state uses force when
    universal norms are violated, the law or rights. In this case, if it
    is violated, the government is entitled to use force. We are rather
    tolerant. By saying we, I mean the government." In response to our
    question what would happen, when they stop being tolerant, he said:
    "For example, when there is provocation in it, I mean the processes
    that happened on the Freedom Square podium between the Heritage Party
    and some activists. If there had been irreversible consequences,
    physical injuries because of some problem there, who would have been
    responsible for that? You would have said that police officers were
    not there and didn't prevent." As for the interference of police
    officers in Spitak and Aparan and the appeal to compatriots that
    the rally was illegal, Hovhannes Sahakyan noted that the police did
    their job. "They were not filming the faces of those gathered, but the
    whole process, so that they had facts in case of provocations. Those
    are different." Hripsime JEBEJYAN

    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/02/25/152545/

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