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Press the AFAJA on the arrest of members of the movement Founder Parliament
A few days before the celebration of the centenary of the Armenian
Genocide, the French Association of Armenian Lawyers and Jurists
(AFAJA) calls the Armenian authorities to a real commitment to the
development of the rule of law and respect for individual freedoms
their citizens. Force is indeed regrettable, since the fall of the
Soviet Union and regained freedom of the Republic of Armenia,
twenty-three years ago, the situation of human rights has not seen
real progress and the cement of national unity was in was severely
disintegrated.
Both independence of the judiciary to the executive branch that
elucidation of sensitive cases by the police authorities sadly leave
much to be desired.
Thus, only the executors of the massacre of October 1999 parliament
were convicted by the Armenian justice are sought without the real
instigators of this attack that nevertheless profoundly changed the
Armenian political scene by removing two of its key players, Karen
Demirdjyan, President of the National Assembly and Vazgen Sargsyan,
Prime Minister of the time.
How not to draw a parallel with the way in which, ten years later, the
Turkish courts will refuse to seek the true authorizing the murder of
journalist Hrant Dink to be limited to the manipulated nationalist
youth sentence?
How to explain that seven years after the fact, responsibility in the
death of ten Armenian citizens, including two members of the security
forces during the night of March 1, 2008 in Yerevan as part of the
disputed results of the presidential election , have still not been
established?
Condemnation, recently endorsed by the Armenian Court of Cassation,
the veteran of the war in Karabakh, Volodya Avetisyan, sentenced to
six and a half years in prison as part of a controversial case is one
of many examples of this non effectiveness of the principle of
justice.
While its geopolitical situation recently forced to sign the agreement
Eurasian imposed by Moscow, the Armenian authorities do not seem to
get rid of practices inherited from the Soviet era and to the respect
of human rights to their agenda. After centuries of Ottoman
subjugation and decades of communist dictatorship, the Armenian
people, did not he finally deserved to benefit effectively the rights
of any State claiming the principles of justice and democracy
recognizes and guarantees its citizens?
Speaking after police violence already imposed on January 31
participants of a peaceful march to the Karabakh organized by the
opposition movement "Parliament founder," the arrest, April 7, 2015 in
Yerevan, the leaders of this organization by agents of the National
Security Service, shows once again that the Armenian power does not
fall into this logic and prefers that of repression.
On the night of April 9, 2015, Zhirayr Sefilyan, Garegin Chookazezyan
Pavel Manukyan, Varoujan Avedisyan, Gevork Safaryan, who called for
the organization of peaceful demonstrations against the regime on the
evening of April 24, 2015, were indicted and placed detention under
the Prevention of section 225.1 of the Armenian Penal Code
criminalizing the organization of mass disorder and punished with
imprisonment from 4 to 10 years.
The AFAJA wishes to express its deep concern at the new round of
repression against civil society that the Armenian authorities seem to
want to start, reinforced by the relative indifference of the Diaspora
busy all the celebrations of the centenary of the genocide. But what
lessons should we draw from these commemorations except that the life
and liberty of Armenian survivors of a planned extermination a century
earlier, must be "sacralized" by the Armenians themselves and the
authorities claiming the govern and our national identity can not
depart from the deep respect for human rights and democracy.
Paris, April 10, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=110147
Press the AFAJA on the arrest of members of the movement Founder Parliament
A few days before the celebration of the centenary of the Armenian
Genocide, the French Association of Armenian Lawyers and Jurists
(AFAJA) calls the Armenian authorities to a real commitment to the
development of the rule of law and respect for individual freedoms
their citizens. Force is indeed regrettable, since the fall of the
Soviet Union and regained freedom of the Republic of Armenia,
twenty-three years ago, the situation of human rights has not seen
real progress and the cement of national unity was in was severely
disintegrated.
Both independence of the judiciary to the executive branch that
elucidation of sensitive cases by the police authorities sadly leave
much to be desired.
Thus, only the executors of the massacre of October 1999 parliament
were convicted by the Armenian justice are sought without the real
instigators of this attack that nevertheless profoundly changed the
Armenian political scene by removing two of its key players, Karen
Demirdjyan, President of the National Assembly and Vazgen Sargsyan,
Prime Minister of the time.
How not to draw a parallel with the way in which, ten years later, the
Turkish courts will refuse to seek the true authorizing the murder of
journalist Hrant Dink to be limited to the manipulated nationalist
youth sentence?
How to explain that seven years after the fact, responsibility in the
death of ten Armenian citizens, including two members of the security
forces during the night of March 1, 2008 in Yerevan as part of the
disputed results of the presidential election , have still not been
established?
Condemnation, recently endorsed by the Armenian Court of Cassation,
the veteran of the war in Karabakh, Volodya Avetisyan, sentenced to
six and a half years in prison as part of a controversial case is one
of many examples of this non effectiveness of the principle of
justice.
While its geopolitical situation recently forced to sign the agreement
Eurasian imposed by Moscow, the Armenian authorities do not seem to
get rid of practices inherited from the Soviet era and to the respect
of human rights to their agenda. After centuries of Ottoman
subjugation and decades of communist dictatorship, the Armenian
people, did not he finally deserved to benefit effectively the rights
of any State claiming the principles of justice and democracy
recognizes and guarantees its citizens?
Speaking after police violence already imposed on January 31
participants of a peaceful march to the Karabakh organized by the
opposition movement "Parliament founder," the arrest, April 7, 2015 in
Yerevan, the leaders of this organization by agents of the National
Security Service, shows once again that the Armenian power does not
fall into this logic and prefers that of repression.
On the night of April 9, 2015, Zhirayr Sefilyan, Garegin Chookazezyan
Pavel Manukyan, Varoujan Avedisyan, Gevork Safaryan, who called for
the organization of peaceful demonstrations against the regime on the
evening of April 24, 2015, were indicted and placed detention under
the Prevention of section 225.1 of the Armenian Penal Code
criminalizing the organization of mass disorder and punished with
imprisonment from 4 to 10 years.
The AFAJA wishes to express its deep concern at the new round of
repression against civil society that the Armenian authorities seem to
want to start, reinforced by the relative indifference of the Diaspora
busy all the celebrations of the centenary of the genocide. But what
lessons should we draw from these commemorations except that the life
and liberty of Armenian survivors of a planned extermination a century
earlier, must be "sacralized" by the Armenians themselves and the
authorities claiming the govern and our national identity can not
depart from the deep respect for human rights and democracy.
Paris, April 10, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=110147