THE ARMED MAN AND POLITICS
- During the recent days Levon Ter-Petrosyan tirelessly intimidates the authorities on behalf of “Yerkrapah” (defenders of the land) Volunteers’ Union, which is being observed by the former ones as a unique “alternative force structure”.
Similar dangerous developments of course are not new in our reality. We should remind you that once Armed Forces of Armenia were accused of a pretension to become similar “alternative force structure”. And under the conditions, still not revealed, in 1990 the famous clash took place in the very center of Yerevan, for the organization of which Armed Forces of Armenia were charged, as an illegal armed formation and disarmed. The leader of declaring the Armed Forces of Armenia as illegal and disarming the latter was the same Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
Today LTP has shifted the before mentioned functions of the Armed Forces of Armenia to “Yerkrapah” Volunteer’s Union.
Otherwise how can they explain the politicization of the leadership of this social organization, by which “Yerkrapah” has turned into a military political organization implementing political functions, which is impermissible?
We should also remind you that in his “historical” speech of December 28, 1994 Levon Ter-Petrosyan accused ARF Dashnaktsutyun party of having an “underground” military structure. He publicly announced that similar phenomenon is impermissible and started his persecutions, which continued for 3 years.
A question arises here why during his presidency LTP considered impermissible the political activity of all the organizations the members of which in some way or that had contact with arms, but at present they can use the same organizations in their post-election struggle against the authorities.
After all at that time we didn’t have a regular army, or it was in the process of formation, so the existence of similar organizations was quite comprehensible. But today when there is absolutely no need for “alternative force structures”, moreover their interference in the political struggle is strictly prohibited by the law, any time they can threaten their personal rivals that allegedly the freedom fighters, particularly “Yerkrapah” Volunteers’ Union will support them in their struggle.
Is it moral to involve in politics those who had a huge investment in Artsakh liberation war? “Yerkrapah” that has always backed Armenian Army, which we will most probably need in our struggle against our external enemy.
As we know “Yerkrapah” is a social organization, which has joined the veterans of Artsakh war and is engaged in solving their social problems. Once, by Vazgen Manukyan’s instruction this organization has been clearly detached from the political domain and it has been decided that those members of “Yerkrapah” who will have desire to be engaged in politics must be admitted into the Republican Party, which happened in reality. Who gave the right to the members of “Yerkrapah” to become an armed political unit? By involving the freedom fighters in politics LTP and his team will never attain their purpose, but will harm people’s unity, split the people and deteriorate their will and determination to confront our exterior enemy in future.
The recent events linked with “Yerkrapah” display that similar organizations should simply not exist in the condition of an accomplished state. Why there are still people in our reality who have personal arsenals and whenever the internal political situation becomes tensed they deliver arms from this arsenal. And in general why should they possess these arms? To protect the land? But for this we have army.
“Yerkrapah” must be disarmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt. The solution of this or that political issue by the help of arms is excluded, for the both sides.
- ARMEN TSATURYAN
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