“One can be sure that it is a compelled text and naturally, he didn’t write it. They gave it to him, considering his language and questions asked, in order that he said that he was deeply moved with Vahe’s death. It is written by a man who has preferred not to speak about his suffering and not to visit in these past 12-15 days,” social anthropologist Hranush Kharatyan, a member of We Demand to Punish Those Guilty of What Happened at Harsnakar public group, said, in response to a question of www.aravot.am what impression Ruben Hayrapetyan’s decision to resign the MP office had made on her, particularly given the fact that there had been rather heart-rending descriptions.
In Ms. Kharatyan’s words, even Zori Balayan, who tries his best, puts all-out effort to inform the society and make it clear for it that the government hasn’t ignored that incident and the developments that followed it, that Rita Sargsyan, Derenik Dumanyan have visited, cannot find any words to say about how Hayrapetyan has responded. Even Seyran Ohanyan who told about the phone conversation between him and Ruben Hayrpetyan, according to Ms. Kharatyan, actually they both agree that it is unacceptable, but they try their best to present it in a more mitigated way, “They both don’t agree that it is an obvious crime. The same Samvel Alexanyan, Rubo’s closest friend, says what Rubo is to blame for. So the people surrounding him and close to him have not found a term that would show that Ruben Hayrapetyan felt regret and suffering for the past 15 days. There was no response from him. However, in the end we have a text in writing, which shows his feelings, how he regrets that he couldn’t grasp fists, which were raised to kill that boy.”
In Ms. Kharatyan’s assessment, however, those fists were very well-trained by Ruben Hayrapetyan to do what they did and it was not the first time they did it. Moreover, “Ruben Hayrapetyan has had many opportunities to grasp those fists, but perhaps he has often been one of those who raised their fists. He beat up personally. After those cases, he never felt pain and hatred and only now, after death, and most probably under the president’s pressure, perhaps, even getting guarantees from the president that his privileges wouldn’t be restricted, if he wasn’t a National Assembly member anymore, he has spread this text in writing.”
Besides forces supporting Hayrapetyan obviously, in our interlocutor’s opinion, there hasn’t been anyone in our society who treated his regret with understanding or trust. In response to a question of www.aravot.am whether at the end of the day, Hayrapetyan’s resigning the office didn’t change anything in our reality, Ms. Kharatyan said, “I think it has changed something. In a certain case, consistent social pressure has caused some attitude.
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