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ARMENIA: SIX YEARS OF COLD CIVIL WAR
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 4 2014
4 March 2014 - 12:13pm
Susanna Petrosyan, Yerevan. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
It was six years on March 1st since the tragic events of 2008, when the
ruling regime used guns against peaceful people protesting against the
results of the presidential elections of February 19th. As a result of
an unbalanced useof force 10 people died and more than 200 people were
injured. The ruling regime thought that due to use of force, terror,
and implied consent of leading foreign players who were interested
in the weak and vulnerable government of Armenia, they would manage
to close the page of March 1st.
Six years have passed, but the consequences of the political crisis
haven't been surmounted. The current authorities, which are successors
of the previous government, don't want to investigate the events of
March 1st and detect the true guilty persons. This is the basis of
the current situation.
>From this point of view, a recent parliamentary discussion of the
second suggestion by the opposition faction of the Armenian National
Congress on establishing a timely parliamentary commission on an
investigation into the events of March 1st was a bright example.
According to Gagik Dzhangiryan, an MP from the ANC, such a commission
should be established, because in six years none of the 10 murders
had been solved, many of the injured people were not registered
as having sustained injuries, nobody got compensation, while the
timely commission of 2008-2009 didn't detect those who were guilty
in the crime.
The opposition fractions agreed to establish a commission, but
representatives of the parliamentary majority tried to prevent
establishment of the commission for various reasons (not to politicize
the issue of March 1st, not to stir up non-tolerance in the society).
As a result the authorities represented by the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia and its small partner Orinats Erkir stayed isolated.
The events of March 1st predetermined changes in the balance of
forces and became a starting point in internal political processes
in the country. Prosperous Armenia and Dashnaktsutyun which used to
be parts of the ruling coalition appeared to be in the opposition
because they try to distance from the events of March 1st, which are
called a national tragedy. The day divided the Armenian society into
two different parts, painting the political field in two colors -
white and black. The events created an atmosphere of a Cold civil
war in Armenia. And the current civil and political intensification
of the Armenian society unfroze the well-known developments in the
context of a complicated social situation.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/52136.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 4 2014
4 March 2014 - 12:13pm
Susanna Petrosyan, Yerevan. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
It was six years on March 1st since the tragic events of 2008, when the
ruling regime used guns against peaceful people protesting against the
results of the presidential elections of February 19th. As a result of
an unbalanced useof force 10 people died and more than 200 people were
injured. The ruling regime thought that due to use of force, terror,
and implied consent of leading foreign players who were interested
in the weak and vulnerable government of Armenia, they would manage
to close the page of March 1st.
Six years have passed, but the consequences of the political crisis
haven't been surmounted. The current authorities, which are successors
of the previous government, don't want to investigate the events of
March 1st and detect the true guilty persons. This is the basis of
the current situation.
>From this point of view, a recent parliamentary discussion of the
second suggestion by the opposition faction of the Armenian National
Congress on establishing a timely parliamentary commission on an
investigation into the events of March 1st was a bright example.
According to Gagik Dzhangiryan, an MP from the ANC, such a commission
should be established, because in six years none of the 10 murders
had been solved, many of the injured people were not registered
as having sustained injuries, nobody got compensation, while the
timely commission of 2008-2009 didn't detect those who were guilty
in the crime.
The opposition fractions agreed to establish a commission, but
representatives of the parliamentary majority tried to prevent
establishment of the commission for various reasons (not to politicize
the issue of March 1st, not to stir up non-tolerance in the society).
As a result the authorities represented by the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia and its small partner Orinats Erkir stayed isolated.
The events of March 1st predetermined changes in the balance of
forces and became a starting point in internal political processes
in the country. Prosperous Armenia and Dashnaktsutyun which used to
be parts of the ruling coalition appeared to be in the opposition
because they try to distance from the events of March 1st, which are
called a national tragedy. The day divided the Armenian society into
two different parts, painting the political field in two colors -
white and black. The events created an atmosphere of a Cold civil
war in Armenia. And the current civil and political intensification
of the Armenian society unfroze the well-known developments in the
context of a complicated social situation.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/52136.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress