At 9.30 am I had an exam on “laws and ethics”. I went to prepare for the exam.
I was awakened by my brother’s (the author of the article is a student, the sister of Armen Ohanyan who was brought in on December 8 morning – edit.) voice – he was walking anxiously with his phone in his hand. At 9 am the pointer of the “work and duty” of the sixth department officers pointed to our house. They sent an invitation to my brother without a notice. “I have a jam made of our garden figs, will you drink tea?” I heard my mother’s voice who was trying to be hospitable. She was pale. My mother didn’t know that her fig jam would not make an officer of the sixth department tell what her son was being brought in for or where they were taking him to without a notice.
Six officers under one roof, after one man. A twenty-minute pointless conversation. We were trying to understand whether an unpleasant officer would give at least an explanation for bringing a man in by his group without a notice. What was the point in that? The six against one will win six to one. They will take my brother no one knows where, no one knows why, it is known only that he is taken in front of my mother, my father and me. It turned out that the reason was a case that had nothing to do with him. A case, which had nothing to do with him and for which six people came to say hello to my family early in the morning.
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Tell me how I can believe in our country after this. A week later my mother still approaches the door scared, it seems to her that this time not six officers of the sixth department will come to our place and the fig jam will not be enough for all.
These very steps promise a man a better life out of his country. Why is one born in his fatherland, if he can either be a lawyer dustman, or an artist beggar, or perhaps get invitations at his place, “Hello, we have an order of bringing you in. We have come for you. We will take you and then you will find out why we have taken you. You cannot help but come, I say I will take you and you will find out why I am taking you. Don’t you understand the ‘bring in’ words?”
Whatever party is in power, whatever leadership there is tomorrow, I don’t have a faith in you anymore. The sun will rise, I will get my A in “laws and ethics”. But tomorrow when I open the door, they will grab me by the arms and bring in with an order on illegal laws, for a case I have nothing to do with and to say tomorrow “I love the law.”
Mariam OHANYAN