Today is Vahe Avetyan’s birthday; he would have been 33 years old. On this occasion, We Demand to Punish All Those Who Are Guilty of the Incident That Took Place at Harsnakar, a Facebook group, will soon organize a protest You Will Not Conceal It outside the investigation department of the police demanding to provide the lawyers of Vahe Avetyan’s legal successors with all documents and materials regarding the Harsnakar case. Today, during a conversation with www.aravot.am, in response to our question whether one could say now that the civil society had won, because it had achieved that the MP resigned his seat or it was too early to talk about that, Ruben Hakobyan, the leader of the Heritage Party parliamentary group, said, “The civil society is emerging. The citizen who is ready to struggle for his rights, has that consciousness is emerging. The citizen who sees that s/he, his child or his friend or her husband can be in Vahe Avetyan’s place is emerging. That pain is his pain; the citizen that realizes his rights is emerging today. However, we can’t say that today we have that civil society completely. We don’t have it, but it is not right not to notice that this struggling citizen is emerging today and tomorrow he will organize and protect not only his rights, but also this state. We notice and welcome that. Certainly, it was a very tragic incident what happened to Vahe, but on the other hand, Vahe’s murder offered an opportunity to review once again what we are and to realize that every citizen in the state should be aware of his rights and be free to protect those rights. The best way to organize a nation is independence and statehood and the best way for state’s maturing and strengthening is the formation of a civil society.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
