CONSCIOUS RETURN

The events and the political developments of the past six months will continue influencing the country’s internal political processes for a long time

The realization of this fact and the necessity of a sober and in-depth analysis and assessments will be an issue of consideration for a long time. However, it is becoming more essential and actual after the 2nd Congress of the “Pan-National Movement” presided over by L. Ter-Petrosyan.
MR. TER-PETROSYAN, where were you on March 1 after 11 a.m., just after the press conference convened in your house? Of course, you were sitting at home, enjoying tea and closely following the scenario you had prepared long ago and instructing your team to gather the people and lead them to the statue of Shahoumyan or to the square situated nearby the French Embassy.
Why especially to that part of the capital city? Did you have anything to show to the world and the embassies? Why didn’t you try to gather the people in some other place, at least near Matenadaran? The answer is clear. You were deliberately pushing the people to a conflict with the police, and it was necessary to make all that more visible to the foreign countries.
MR. TER-PETROSYAN, why didn’t you leave your house and go to the French Embassy at around 15 p.m. in order to lead the political process you love so much? Why didn’t you respond to the admonitions of your close people who had simply asked you to hurry to the French Embassy and reported with the precision of minutes that the situation there was becoming extremely tense, and the first serious clash between the police and the demonstrators had taken place between 12:00 and 13:00 p.m.?
Furthermore, you not only failed to go to the French Embassy but also categorically prohibited Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Zourabyan and Alexander Arzoumanyan to go there at around 14:00 p.m., realizing very well that your absence, as well as the absence of any influential activist ready to replace you might arouse anxiety and uncertainty both among the people and the law enforcers.
What you needed was to exacerbate the situation within two hours, and you achieved that. Your calculation was accurate, and only after 17:00 p.m. when the crowd of demonstrators had turned into an uncontrollable, ungovernable and furious mass, did you allow Nikol Pashinyan and the others to go to the French Embassy.
In the meantime, it should be noted that before N. Pashinyan’s going there, you had instructed L. Zourabyan to categorically forbid David Shahnazaryan and Levon Zourabyan (who were near the French Embassy negotiating with two Generals of the Police - S. Afyan and A. Giziryan) to undertake any action independently and demanded that the negotiations with the police be discontinued and everybody wait till you reached there.
Actually, you disallowed D. Shahnazaryan to continue the negotiations and violated the agreement according to which D. Shahnazaryan was to send the people to the square near Matenadaran without any preconditions. This was an agreement to which the authorities and the police had already given consent.
By the joint efforts of David Shahnazaryan and the police officers, the situation would have been resolved without extreme manifestations. But you disallowed that and did so because you were aware that there were armed people among the demonstrators, who were going to shoot at the police in the evening when it was dark.
This is the first thing to say. The second thing is that you had probably calculated that the shooting and the activities of the demonstrators would drive the police to a panic, and they would go away, thus allowing the demonstrators to move towards Baghramyan Avenue. You had calculated this because you had been precisely informed that the police were unarmed, and they were only protecting the public order.
And the most important thing to say: why wouldn’t you go there to govern the uncontrollable crowd? It isn’t as though you were at the core of the events, you were the founder and leader of the movement, as well as the chief responsible figure for the events that were taking place; you were the only one whom that electorate obeyed. So why did you leave those people in a state of abandonment and irresponsibility?
What were the fairytales you were inventing about being under home arrest? How come that you became a strictly law-abiding citizen on that particular day and at that particular hour and began complying with the decrees of Robert Kocharyan, the president you had declared illegitimate, and Grigor Sargsyan, his subordinate. If you considered them illegitimate you might have as well “ignored” the regime of the so-called home arrest and tried to leave home and go to the French Embassy to help the people and to relax the extremely tense situation.
And that the situation was becoming extremely tense you were informed about it every single minute. For the sake of the people’s safety, for the sake of maintaining our country’s international reputation and rating, you might have gone there and coordinated the activities in the territory near the French Embassy. You knew that you were the only one who could do that, but didn’t do anything at all. You didn’t because you needed bloodshed in the outcome of the events, and you achieved that.
In your speech delivered during the 2nd Congress, you were justifying yourself by saying that your house was surrounded by the employees of the National Security Service, and being under a de facto home arrest, you were unable to go to the French Embassy? It is just ridiculous; it is the greatest deceit addressed to our public.
The thing is that beginning March 1, 12:00 a.m., you have been free to leave your house and go anywhere you like. Your freedom of movement has never been restricted. On March 1 you just received a warning by the National Security Service that if you wanted to go to the French Embassy, you couldn't be accompanied by your body guards as these people were employees of the National Security Service and were not entitled to participate in unauthorized events and protests.
In that case, Mr. Ter-Petrosyan, if you had wished to leave your house and go to the French Embassy, you could have done it quite easily, without being accompanied by body-guards. You could have gone there together with Avetis Avagyan, your Assistant, and Ashot Sargsyan, one of the responsible employees of your office. Or, you could have gone there alone and asked the body-guards of Khachatour Sukiasyan to accompany you. They would have readily guarded you and taken care of your security.
And after all, who were you afraid of? The problem of your security was definitely solved. You were to visit the people, and no citizen or policeman would have done anything to prevent you, especially if you had announced that you were going there to relax the situation and had really done so.
You were surpassing all the limits of falsification and meanness by announcing that you hadn’t gone to the French Embassy because of being under home arrest. You didn’t go there because you knew that there was going to be a bloodshed, and this was what you needed to continue your activity which had reached a deadlock; you just wanted to proceed with you further political programs. This is the truth.

to be continued
VREZH AHARONYAN

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Savva wrote:
U r rediculous!!! They took all the weapons from Sukiassyans and Levons bodyguards.. So what kind of bodyguards are they and how they were going to protect Levon.. I am not supporter of Levon but you wrote here a lot of stupid things!!!

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