Paruyr Hayrikyan, the leader of the National Self-Determination Union (NSDU), said about the ARF that “they have existed for nothing for 100 years.” Paruyr Hayrikyan told in detail why he was compelled to say so during a conversation with www.aravot.am today, “Vahan Hovhannisyan said that the NSDU didn’t exist. And I said that he was living in the era of the NSDU. How come a man living in the era of the NSDU, a representative of a party that has constantly experienced failures says that the NSDU doesn’t exist? In response to that, instead of saying, ‘Dear Vahan, my dear brother, I am sorry for you, I love you very much, I apologize to my life, my destiny that you were compelled to say such an irrational thing,’ instead of that I said, ‘You were established at the time, in order to establish autonomy in Armenia, but you ended up with a genocide, you didn’t manage to maintain the independent Armenia, then when we rose up for the fight for independence, you were against independence. So you have existed for nothing for 100 years.’ I just said that, but I am not proud of what I said.” According to Hayrikyan, the ARF responded to his words in the following way, “Don’t mess with Hayrikyan, because he gives very sharp answers.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
