“If everything boiled down to apologizing, at least 50% of the convicts in correctional institutions wouldn’t have been convicted,” Artur Sakunts, the manager of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am, talking about the case of Arman Veziryan who had undergone Ruben Hayrapetyan’s violent treatment.
Mr. Sakunts thinks that Arman Veziryan will put up with the violent action and will not report to the police, “But Veziryan is not the issue here, it is not a separate action or an individual case, the issue is that on the day of commemorating a person who had died because of a violent action, another violent action is taken. That culture of violence is of systemic nature – it is the only way to interact with citizens, it is an obvious proof of an oligarchic system. Those minor tricks of apologizing etc.; this is not the case when we will naively say that everything has changed by that.”
Mr. Sakunts said they demanded that Republican Party discuss and condemn that violent action, “Mr. Hayrapetyan’s party, not condemning such actions, is oligarchic in nature and for an oligarchic system, there are no interests of citizens, except for its own interests, this is being proved and we don’t have any intention to put up with that.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
