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Bookless Javakhk and foul language at YSU - opinion
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/03/01/vahe-sargsyan/
16:41 - 01.03.13
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An expert at the analytical center Mitk, Vahe Sargsyan, has presented
his thoughts on the cultural problems in Javakhk, Georgia's Armenian
populated region, linking the fact with a recent incident outside the
Yerevan State University (YSU), particularly the behavior of the
students from Javakhk.
His concerns, reflected in an article, are provided below:
Literally two days ago, employees at a Georgian checkpoint found a
passenger carrying books; they gave a warning and sent them back. At
the teach-ins these days, we saw Javakhk-Armenians using a foul
language against those holding a protest. These two actualities,
having nothing to do with each other at first sight, are, as a matter
of fact, closely interrelated.
In its second term in office, the Saakashvili regime sought - and
continues to date - to brutalize the Javakkhk-Armenian young
generation, banning the entry of books and cultural items to the
region. That in turn created a breeding ground for opening police
subdivisions instead of cultural institutions in Javakhkh. That's a
natural phenomenon: where book is forbidden, brutality has remained a
state policy for years. So an increasing number of police officers and
police chiefs, victims of reprisals and jails is quite natural. Here
is the connection between this systemic phenomenon and the incident
outside the YSU. With no books entering Javakhk, it is quite natural
for semi-brutal youth with low or no intellect to emerge from there
and later join the detachments and home guards of a man in suit and
necktie.
As a matter of fact, those young men with a disgraceful and repulsive
conduct should have fought for their and their compatriots' rights on
the Georgian border, in Javakhk or elsewhere. But brutalized instead -
thanks to the Georgian authorities' policies - and receiving no
ideological upbringing, the Armenian students from Javakhk rapidly
turn into a tool in the hands of a mentally diseased considering
himself a leader or very often - certain criminal elements .
As long as the ban on books in Javakhk remains largely unresponded to
by wide circles in Armenia, it is very hard to expect the region to be
a place of future scientists or intellectuals, a generation of people
it has given for decades.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/03/01/vahe-sargsyan/
16:41 - 01.03.13
Photo by Civilnet.am
An expert at the analytical center Mitk, Vahe Sargsyan, has presented
his thoughts on the cultural problems in Javakhk, Georgia's Armenian
populated region, linking the fact with a recent incident outside the
Yerevan State University (YSU), particularly the behavior of the
students from Javakhk.
His concerns, reflected in an article, are provided below:
Literally two days ago, employees at a Georgian checkpoint found a
passenger carrying books; they gave a warning and sent them back. At
the teach-ins these days, we saw Javakhk-Armenians using a foul
language against those holding a protest. These two actualities,
having nothing to do with each other at first sight, are, as a matter
of fact, closely interrelated.
In its second term in office, the Saakashvili regime sought - and
continues to date - to brutalize the Javakkhk-Armenian young
generation, banning the entry of books and cultural items to the
region. That in turn created a breeding ground for opening police
subdivisions instead of cultural institutions in Javakhkh. That's a
natural phenomenon: where book is forbidden, brutality has remained a
state policy for years. So an increasing number of police officers and
police chiefs, victims of reprisals and jails is quite natural. Here
is the connection between this systemic phenomenon and the incident
outside the YSU. With no books entering Javakhk, it is quite natural
for semi-brutal youth with low or no intellect to emerge from there
and later join the detachments and home guards of a man in suit and
necktie.
As a matter of fact, those young men with a disgraceful and repulsive
conduct should have fought for their and their compatriots' rights on
the Georgian border, in Javakhk or elsewhere. But brutalized instead -
thanks to the Georgian authorities' policies - and receiving no
ideological upbringing, the Armenian students from Javakhk rapidly
turn into a tool in the hands of a mentally diseased considering
himself a leader or very often - certain criminal elements .
As long as the ban on books in Javakhk remains largely unresponded to
by wide circles in Armenia, it is very hard to expect the region to be
a place of future scientists or intellectuals, a generation of people
it has given for decades.
From: Baghdasarian