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    No liberation without struggle - Zhirair Sefilyan - Video

    TERT.AM
    23:18 - 17.05.13


    The Armenian Preparliament has started its rally in Freedom Square in Yerevan.

    The organizers state that a process of creating a republic of new
    quality is under way in Armenia now.

    After the current regime has been removed, the issues of forming a new
    government and involving the people in a national liberation struggle
    will be discussed.

    `Our government, president and prime ministers failed to lay the
    foundations for a secure country,' a Preparliament member, Vardan
    Hakobyan, said.

    The current policy is focused on the country leader's interests, which
    is unacceptable, he said.

    The result is regularly rigged elections and people that are not
    masters of their homeland. `We have colonized Armenia, and our
    strategic partner Russia has laid its hands on everything,' he said.

    The Preparliament member Garegin Chukaszyan stated that the ruling
    Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has once more proved that its
    political leaders are not ready listen to the people.

    `We need a new way. We must realize that the opposition is life, the
    people. The number of people attending this rally shows that the
    problem of social tension has not been resolved in Armenia, and
    political revival is high on the agenda. The political stalemate the
    Preparliament warned of last year is a reality now. We are struggling
    against the bankrupt political system. The country is in a pit, and no
    political forces or individuals can take it out,' he said.

    The country needs employment of democratic principles, which means
    citizens' immediate involvement and formation of an active opposition
    network throughout the country.

    The present political stalemate creates conditions for extremes and,
    on the other hand, an atmosphere of despair, which forces more people
    into emigration.

    `We are sure of our people's wisdom and we deny the claims that the
    people supported the authorities by voting for them. No doubt, the
    people have come down to abject poverty, and we must speak of those
    responsible,' he said.

    Speaking at the rally, Tigran Khzmalyan noted the major problem is
    emigration. Armenia's authorities are the only ones responsible.

    `Our country has lost 50% of its population in recent 20 years. We
    have lost half of our cities and villages. The population of a village
    leaves the country every day,' he said.

    When the people succeed in reaching a crucial moment by means of
    elections, the authorities open fire at their own people, use batons
    and go on occupying the country by means of money and frauds.

    Armenia's authorities do not take the opposition into account, so they
    must be shown real opposition. `We must liberate our country. That's
    why we have united round Alek Yenigomshyan [an ex-member of
    theArmenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia - ASALA], and
    Zgirair Sefilyan [former commander of the Shushi battalion]. We are
    not representing any party nor are we going to become a party because
    parties split the country. We will create real power rather than a
    party,' he said.

    The people are not resisting because the authorities know the way of
    dealing with them - keeping the people hungry like it was during the
    Genocide, Khzmalyan said.

    Honored Actress of Armenia Siranush Azaryan spoke at the rally in
    behalf of all the residents of Gyumri.

    The people of Gyumri were able to ensure so the entire Armenian people
    will be able to.

    `Quite a few people attended the Preparliament's rally in Gyumri on
    May 9. A hope sprang up. But how many times can we let a hope spring
    up and fade? This is typical of our people,' she said.

    `We give our children the best. But they are now living in a country
    without future,' Azaryan said.

    If all people join the struggle, they are sure to win victory.
    Alek Yenigomshyan welcomed the end of elections in Armenia, which
    inaugurated a real struggle.

    He presented the plans for the foreseeable future, namely, creating a
    parallel government system and a state of new quality.

    "We must think so to overcome this reality. We thus winned all of our
    victories throughout our history,' he said.

    He noted that the forces that has now come onto the political scene is
    not a party. `We have no right to change power and leave everything,
    which was the case in 1988. That cruel system was replaced by a
    similar cruel system' he said.

    There must not be reports to the people once in five years, but there
    must be daily reports.

    The Preparliament member, ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan said that the
    initiative members do not have any ambitions or `civilization
    complex.'

    `These people are very busy. But they realize the disastrous situation
    in the country. Who knows about the tasks of our authorities at
    different levels? When you elected the Yerevan mayor, did you know
    about his plans for this or next year? You do not know. But elections
    are not programs of pledges,' she said.

    She hopes the people will join the Preparliament's struggle for Armenia.

    The environmentalist Yeghya Nersisyan quoted Garegin Nzhdeh, saying,
    `It is more difficult to live a hero than to die.'

    `I was in Byurakan, where Armenia's Prosecutor General is building one
    more death-dealing hydro-power plant. The villagers are ready to die
    but they will not have the hydro power plant work,' he said.

    `Condemned are the authorities of a country where freedom fighters
    stage sit-down protests,' he said.

    `We are ready to die for life, but they will live and dream of dying,'
    Nersisyan said.

    The Preparliament member Zgirair Sefilyan noted that the ruling regime
    has for years retained power.

    However, it is not because they are strong, but because the opposition
    forces, to put it mildly, committed mistakes.

    'Our country is occupied. The ruling administration has declared an
    open war on the people. So the homeland will not be liberated without
    struggle,' he said.

    Twenty-five years ago the Armenian people succeeded to unite and
    liberate Nagorno-Karabakh. The same must be done for establishing an
    independent state.

    He stressed the need to realize that any movement, especially an
    opposition movement, cannot achieve results without support. Although
    the Preparliament has a well-thought-out program , it will remain on
    paper unless life is breathed into it.

    He also stressed the need for organization in the Armenian Diaspora.

    The Preparliament will hold its next rally on July 12, with
    semimonthly meetings and discussions to precede it in Freedom Square.

    `We realize our program is a complex one. It must be so because we
    want to create a state, but we have a perception problem. We want to
    listen to our people,' he said.

    Sefilyan called on `honest' freedom fighters, who have endured for 25
    years, to join the Preparliament. He also called on young people not
    to leave Armenia and on the Armenian Diaspora to join the struggle.


    http://www.tert.am/en/video/yDp-wdlqJAE/

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