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June 18 2013
Yesterday, the Women's Rights Defenders held a demonstration at the
Prosecutor's Office. The demonstration was focused on 20-year-old Maro
Guloyan's case, which, according to the official version, hung herself
in her own bathroom. The case was filed as a criminal case, which,
however, was quashed and, thus, the investigation body extending the
case for about a year, found out that Maro's husband, Gevorg Guloyan,
did not anyhow contribute to the 'suicide'. Nevertheless, people
gathered at the Prosecutor's Office believed that he had contributed
to the suicide by using violence and humiliations against the wife.
The issue, of course, is a legal one, there should not be any
preconceived attitude. Another circumstance is quite attractive:
usually the Women's Rights Defenders NGOs, especially, deserve a
negative attitude from a part of the society. Such approaches are
usually demonstrated by three public groups: a/ by advocates of
"traditional national values", who believe that only 'grant-eaters'
are engaged in human rights defend, and the so-called "European
value" is simply an exhortation of immorality, b/ by men based on
'sexual solidarity', c/ by mothers-in-law as sponsor and organizer
of domestic violence. The first and last groups are hopeless: if
a person believes that violence is a national value, or, believes
that she is going to reimburse her own suffering when once she was
a daughter-in-law by torturing her own daughter-in-law, it is very
difficult to dissuade these two groups. I hope for men. Have you
noticed no men ever participate in such demonstrations? They probably
consider it something like a betrayal of masculine race. Whereas,
when you see that a representative of your group, in this case of
your gender, has done something wrong, this, I'm sure, increases
the value of your group (gender). Therefore, men should protect
women's rights, those with white complexion should fight against
racial discrimination, and vice versa, the Christians should strive
for Muslims to be able to freely express their religious feelings,
and vice versa, the same for Sunni and Shiites, Catholics and
Protestants. We, having normal orientation, should protest when the
advocates of "traditional national values" attack a cafe, where, in
their opinion, homosexuals are gathered. The supporters of power and
those indifferent to the policy must fight for the young opposition
Tigran Arakelyan to set free a day early. And Tigran after becoming
free must fight that no policeman has a nose bleeding. It is very
easy to protect a representative of your own group, gang, sex and
race. It is much more difficult to protect just a human Aram ABRAHAMYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/06/18/154917/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian
June 18 2013
Yesterday, the Women's Rights Defenders held a demonstration at the
Prosecutor's Office. The demonstration was focused on 20-year-old Maro
Guloyan's case, which, according to the official version, hung herself
in her own bathroom. The case was filed as a criminal case, which,
however, was quashed and, thus, the investigation body extending the
case for about a year, found out that Maro's husband, Gevorg Guloyan,
did not anyhow contribute to the 'suicide'. Nevertheless, people
gathered at the Prosecutor's Office believed that he had contributed
to the suicide by using violence and humiliations against the wife.
The issue, of course, is a legal one, there should not be any
preconceived attitude. Another circumstance is quite attractive:
usually the Women's Rights Defenders NGOs, especially, deserve a
negative attitude from a part of the society. Such approaches are
usually demonstrated by three public groups: a/ by advocates of
"traditional national values", who believe that only 'grant-eaters'
are engaged in human rights defend, and the so-called "European
value" is simply an exhortation of immorality, b/ by men based on
'sexual solidarity', c/ by mothers-in-law as sponsor and organizer
of domestic violence. The first and last groups are hopeless: if
a person believes that violence is a national value, or, believes
that she is going to reimburse her own suffering when once she was
a daughter-in-law by torturing her own daughter-in-law, it is very
difficult to dissuade these two groups. I hope for men. Have you
noticed no men ever participate in such demonstrations? They probably
consider it something like a betrayal of masculine race. Whereas,
when you see that a representative of your group, in this case of
your gender, has done something wrong, this, I'm sure, increases
the value of your group (gender). Therefore, men should protect
women's rights, those with white complexion should fight against
racial discrimination, and vice versa, the Christians should strive
for Muslims to be able to freely express their religious feelings,
and vice versa, the same for Sunni and Shiites, Catholics and
Protestants. We, having normal orientation, should protest when the
advocates of "traditional national values" attack a cafe, where, in
their opinion, homosexuals are gathered. The supporters of power and
those indifferent to the policy must fight for the young opposition
Tigran Arakelyan to set free a day early. And Tigran after becoming
free must fight that no policeman has a nose bleeding. It is very
easy to protect a representative of your own group, gang, sex and
race. It is much more difficult to protect just a human Aram ABRAHAMYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/06/18/154917/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian