“Hey, listen, it’s enough to keep cameras on us, you drank our blood.” As you guess, a humble laborer of the land, a violinist of a symphonic orchestra or a junior scientific worker can not talk like this. The “bodyguard” of “Harsnaqar” restaurant Garik Markaryan speaks like that, who is sitting in the chair of the defendant and accuses the visitors to the restaurant for a brutality and sadism beating, so that one of them had died. When they attacked people with their pack and tortured them, the “bodyguards ‘and waiters would probably not realized that they will be answering before the law, and the cameras will be focused on them. Thus, people who are accused for shedding blood, instead of burning with shame, blame the journalists for taking pictures and thus for “drinking their blood”. And the mother, who brought up such a “glorious” son dishonors the reporter covering the trial.
I am absolutely not going to insist that the reporters are right under all circumstances. In all disputable cases, I am only defending the reporters to whom I have no doubts concerning their discreet, decent and professional conduct. This is precisely the case. In general, I think that from the prospective of society benefits, even disputable cases (excluding personal), it is more appropriate that the reporters focus their attention on this or that phenomenon rather than to hide the phenomenon or the event. More the trial in “Harsnaqar” is covered, less is likelihood that those responsible for a brutal beating and killing will get their deserved punishment. More we remember the criminal of the neighborhood impeding the reporters during the elections, less the characters, including “Turbo” will have the chance to hide themselves in their concealments. More we write about shootings in Gyumri or Goris, more the obscenity of local ‘princelings’ will be limited. Whenever we become less consistent, tired, forgetting, etc., the government finds the opportunity to ‘conceal’ the cases.
The same refers to the issue that was raised by our colleagues from “Hetq”. It refers to the document, according to which the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and the Ararat Diocese Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan were correlated to the enterprise registered at the offshore zone and created obstacles in the business of another businessman. Whether the information is accurate or not, I do not know. The Prime Minister, however, has applied to the Prosecutor’s Office. But if we are not interested in what happened to the application on daily base, the prosecution is very likely to ‘hide’ the case.
So, dear colleagues, when the officials, their “bodyguards” and, which is almost the same, the “neighborhood thugs’ say ‘take your camera away from here”, do not listen to them.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
