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`I Feel Bad,' Violet Cannot Bear the One-Day Hunger Strike
March 15 2013
She will write a tragedy or a recipe instead of her plays This morning
poet Violet Grigoryan joined Raffi Hovhannisyan's hunger strike. She
went on a one-day hunger strike. Violet said during a conversation
with www.aravot.am that it was of symbolic nature. `You know, don't
you, how a real hunger strike ruins a man's health? This is just a
symbolic gesture. I don't know whether I can do something more. Now I
see that I feel bad even when it is one day. I don't know whether I
can do more or not. I now realize that it is a hard thing to do.' She
said that she hadn't even drunk a coffee and only hoped that she would
endure at least one day. `There are many people who want to contribute
somehow, but they don't know how. Being on a hunger strike for a long
time is a really hard thing.' Let us note that a few youths joined
Raffi Hovhannisyan as early as in the first days of his hunger strike,
but Raffi Hovhannisyan urged them not to damage their health and not
to do that. He approached Violet Grigoryan and asked not to do that
either, but given the fact that it was a one-day hunger strike, he
agreed. Violet doesn't know what the struggle will benefit from the
hunger strike. `I respect his decisions and the whole political
culture that he has adopted, his responsibility for that. It is a
large amount of responsibility and self-sacrifice. In his case, the
words `morality' and `ethics' enter politics again. People employ
these means to change life, not political chess. This wish to change
life, in the revolutionary sense, this self-sacrifice really brings
all those concepts back to the political stage.' Anahit Bakhshyan, a
member of the Heritage Party executive committee, said that in her
opinion, society didn't deserve this kind of self-sacrifice of Raffi
Hovhannisyan. In response to our question whether she agreed, Violet
Grigoryan said that the word `society' was abstract for her. `I know
that there is much political cynicism in our country. I know that the
government has contaminated people with that cynicism. Certainly, it
depends on the man. After all that, seeing so many people who are not
cynics, can struggle, we realize that we have society. The election
alone showed that.' We inquired of Violet whether she was going to
write some plays, poems about today's situation. She replied: `I have
a stomachache right now; I am in no mood for writing a play. If I
write, it will be a tragedy or a recipe. I had better write
afterwards.' Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/15/152990/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
March 15 2013
She will write a tragedy or a recipe instead of her plays This morning
poet Violet Grigoryan joined Raffi Hovhannisyan's hunger strike. She
went on a one-day hunger strike. Violet said during a conversation
with www.aravot.am that it was of symbolic nature. `You know, don't
you, how a real hunger strike ruins a man's health? This is just a
symbolic gesture. I don't know whether I can do something more. Now I
see that I feel bad even when it is one day. I don't know whether I
can do more or not. I now realize that it is a hard thing to do.' She
said that she hadn't even drunk a coffee and only hoped that she would
endure at least one day. `There are many people who want to contribute
somehow, but they don't know how. Being on a hunger strike for a long
time is a really hard thing.' Let us note that a few youths joined
Raffi Hovhannisyan as early as in the first days of his hunger strike,
but Raffi Hovhannisyan urged them not to damage their health and not
to do that. He approached Violet Grigoryan and asked not to do that
either, but given the fact that it was a one-day hunger strike, he
agreed. Violet doesn't know what the struggle will benefit from the
hunger strike. `I respect his decisions and the whole political
culture that he has adopted, his responsibility for that. It is a
large amount of responsibility and self-sacrifice. In his case, the
words `morality' and `ethics' enter politics again. People employ
these means to change life, not political chess. This wish to change
life, in the revolutionary sense, this self-sacrifice really brings
all those concepts back to the political stage.' Anahit Bakhshyan, a
member of the Heritage Party executive committee, said that in her
opinion, society didn't deserve this kind of self-sacrifice of Raffi
Hovhannisyan. In response to our question whether she agreed, Violet
Grigoryan said that the word `society' was abstract for her. `I know
that there is much political cynicism in our country. I know that the
government has contaminated people with that cynicism. Certainly, it
depends on the man. After all that, seeing so many people who are not
cynics, can struggle, we realize that we have society. The election
alone showed that.' We inquired of Violet whether she was going to
write some plays, poems about today's situation. She replied: `I have
a stomachache right now; I am in no mood for writing a play. If I
write, it will be a tragedy or a recipe. I had better write
afterwards.' Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/15/152990/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress