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ANATOMY OF WASTED VICTORY
In Karabakh people joke that more people received medals for the
liberation of Shushi than participated in the liberation action while
most participants of the action have never been awarded.
A joke is a joke but there is a huge truth in it. Usually history is
falsified before it is written on paper. Zori Balayan, for instance,
described different stories and heroes in his different books on the
war in Karabakh depending on the conjuncture. A lot of books have
been written with the financial assistance of one "hero" or another
and one understands in what "light".
When one of such authors dedicated his book to the founder of the
Karabakh movement Igor Muradyan, the latter asked him what he wrote
in his book. The author said "the truth". Igor Muradyan asked if he
knows the truth to write about it. The author did not answer.
We do not even know what is happening here and now so how can we trust
historians of the past centuries, their books and their heroes? Igor
Muradyan says if the real history of the Karabakh movement were
written down, it would be a history of the greatest human ignominy.
Muradyan does not mean those few passionate groups who carried the
movement and the war on their shoulders but a larger circle of people
who warmed their hands on fire and satisfied their different ambitions
and complexes.
Maybe it is the same thing everywhere but in Armenia it was more
obvious. Another founder of the Karabakh movement tells that when they
organized an action in one of the cities of Armenia, people asked if
the criminal-in-law of the city knew about it. They participated in
the action only if they made sure that the criminal-in-law knows.
While notwithstanding these circumstances the real heroes built up
the victory, the other kind felt the war was a chance to bring their
"status" higher. Karabakh Committee we all know used the Karabakh
movement to come to power in Armenia. During and after the war the
"veterans" of war gradually took over the political and economic
resource of the country by the war law and eventually the government.
For 20 years the only mechanism of forming government has been the war
law. Recently Galust Sahakyan has stated that the Republicans will
continue to rule unless Armenia is at war. In fact, the "cream of
the war" is here to stay, including feudal generals, weapon dealers,
veterans, "slush funds" and plunderers of war. So the history is
wasted because those who achieved it were modest people of virtue
and dignity who never claimed their share and rights.
God, let this kind be in the next big war.
Haik Aramyan 14:13 08/05/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29829
In Karabakh people joke that more people received medals for the
liberation of Shushi than participated in the liberation action while
most participants of the action have never been awarded.
A joke is a joke but there is a huge truth in it. Usually history is
falsified before it is written on paper. Zori Balayan, for instance,
described different stories and heroes in his different books on the
war in Karabakh depending on the conjuncture. A lot of books have
been written with the financial assistance of one "hero" or another
and one understands in what "light".
When one of such authors dedicated his book to the founder of the
Karabakh movement Igor Muradyan, the latter asked him what he wrote
in his book. The author said "the truth". Igor Muradyan asked if he
knows the truth to write about it. The author did not answer.
We do not even know what is happening here and now so how can we trust
historians of the past centuries, their books and their heroes? Igor
Muradyan says if the real history of the Karabakh movement were
written down, it would be a history of the greatest human ignominy.
Muradyan does not mean those few passionate groups who carried the
movement and the war on their shoulders but a larger circle of people
who warmed their hands on fire and satisfied their different ambitions
and complexes.
Maybe it is the same thing everywhere but in Armenia it was more
obvious. Another founder of the Karabakh movement tells that when they
organized an action in one of the cities of Armenia, people asked if
the criminal-in-law of the city knew about it. They participated in
the action only if they made sure that the criminal-in-law knows.
While notwithstanding these circumstances the real heroes built up
the victory, the other kind felt the war was a chance to bring their
"status" higher. Karabakh Committee we all know used the Karabakh
movement to come to power in Armenia. During and after the war the
"veterans" of war gradually took over the political and economic
resource of the country by the war law and eventually the government.
For 20 years the only mechanism of forming government has been the war
law. Recently Galust Sahakyan has stated that the Republicans will
continue to rule unless Armenia is at war. In fact, the "cream of
the war" is here to stay, including feudal generals, weapon dealers,
veterans, "slush funds" and plunderers of war. So the history is
wasted because those who achieved it were modest people of virtue
and dignity who never claimed their share and rights.
God, let this kind be in the next big war.
Haik Aramyan 14:13 08/05/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29829