“Everything comes from the atmosphere of impunity. We all know that in the past there were cases when they remained unpunished, the majority of them are connected to Suren Khachatryan or those close to him, and that impunity has reached to the point that this case ended in death. There seems that such a thing, anyway, was to happen because a man of criminal mentality and psychology restrains his behavior only in case of being afraid of the law. If during this time they remain unpunished, either people will become self-organized to self-defend from those criminal methods, or the situation will really become unpredictable, – such opinion was expressed by the former Deputy Mayor of Kapan, a member of the ARF, editor of local newspaper “Kapan News” Gagik Ghahramanyan concerning the recent case in Goris. We failed to find other people to express their opinion regarding the event in Goris, many of them refused to talk from different reasons, especially they avoided to express publicly, so instead of opinion of different people, we will present the point of view of the sole interlocutor and his assessment about the incident. “At the moment everything is not clear, let the investigation do the job: actually I do not know who to what extent and what participation have had, various versions are circulating, in any case, I know that it is connected with the surrounding of Suren Khachatryan. The problem, here, is not that Suren Khachatryan will be resigned or not, or to what extent he will be punished …. It does not interest me much, the phenomenon should be eliminated, this is the most important thing”, – said Gagik Ghahramanyan indicating that it is very important for the president and the government give assessment to the phenomenon, because many people now expect whether a move will be made to restore the trust of the people towards the justice in the country, or not. “The President here has a very big problem. It is a watershed. Either the President proves the opinion that he is simply the number one issue solver of criminal-police system in Armenia, or he lays claim to eventually become president, why not the worldwide Armenian leader, too. If he does not take this step and wil not give adequate response to in the range of the law, he will lose the control over many things: first people will become sure that it is senseless to rely on the justice of the law in this country, in such cases, it is going to reserve the right to solve the issues by evading the law, an unmanageable situation will be created, naturally another ugly and worse outcome of a situation will be created, it is important whether it will be in Goris, Kapan or Dilijan”, – said Ghahramanyan and added if an adequate step is not made, in such situations people will become self-organized and will give a worthy response. In given situation, my interlocutor considers the position of the parties important and recommends them to make concrete statements instead of one or two meaningless
statements, because this is the case when parties are those who reach the speech of people to the political field.” And as for the future process of the case, in my opinion, however, Suren Khachatryan will definitely be resigned. And who will come to replace him, I can not say, names of various candidates are circulated, at this point it’s not so important for me, the most important thing for me is that the person of such values is not a governor, in normal countries the person of such values, like Suren Khachatryan, will not occupy such a high position in the administrative system. The very fact that he is in the office of a Governor for 10 years, says about the fact that the system is a sick system”, – said the former Deputy Mayor of Kapan, ARF Gagik Ghahramanyan.
Meri Soghomonyan
