The burial of Vahe Avetyan who has died as a result of being violently beaten at Harsnakar is in progress at the moment. Representatives of various political forces – members of the ANC, PAP and Heritage Party parliamentary groups, Levon Zurabyan, Naira Zohrabyan and others – participate in the burial in order to sympathize with Vahe’s relatives. It is interesting that the Republican MPs haven’t gone to Vahe’s funeral. Anahit Bakhshyan, a former Heritage Party MP, communicated during a conversation with us that “I have tried to catch sight of at least one of them in order to single out, but I haven’t seen any Republicans. This is a very bad indication, not only don’t they have the human courage to come – I am convinced that they are also sorry, but they cannot humanly voice where the ladders of guilt lead to – they cannot also come and express their condolences publicly.” In response to our remark that if Ruben Hayrapetyan had participated, the relatives wouldn’t have tolerated that and there would have been incidents, Ms. Bakhshyan said, “The relatives wouldn’t have paid attention
to him, wouldn’t have noticed him, because their pain is so big. Ruben must have had fears, but the others mustn’t, must they? They could have come, hear a few caustic remarks, but they would have solved at list the issue of maintaining their moral image for the future and would have said that they had gone and had humanly sympathized.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
