Who is to blame, the person who gives stupid commands, or the executor, – asks the war veteran Norayr Shabazyan. For about 10 years, 1989-1999, medical officer Norayr A. Shabazyan who served in the armed forces of Armenia and in the regular army, in peacetime, prefers to be presented not with the past, but with the present as an RA citizen. Norayr Shabazyan is Jirair Sefilyan’s comrade, but unlike Sefilyan, he does not conduct public activities, he does not participate in the protests of demand-claim in solving social problems of freedom fighters. He did not participate in the non-humiliating actions against the truck driver Hrachya Harutyunyan arrested in Russia and brought in to the court dressed
in a bathrobe. “Let the court decide the degree of Harutyunyan’s guilt. We proceed based on two facts; there happened an accident and 18 victims, and secondly, Hrachya Harutyunyan was sober. One victim is already a tragedy. But let’s put sensitiveness aside. Brining a man to the court dressed in a women’s robe is first of all an offense to Russia and the Russian people. I do not think they were trying to make something clear to Armenia. The price increase in gas was quite enough.
A man that gives a woman’s robe of another man to wear is not a man but unsatisfied in everywhere starting from geopolitical life up to its private home. Russia should be the first to be concerned and punish displayers of such behavior. It will not do, it’s up to it. If it were an Azerbaijani instead of Hrachia Harutyunyan, I would not be happy. Let’s not make any comment based on a report of a journalist or reportage. The question is not in “yan” or “oghli”. The question is the man. Russia showed that it does not care for any human being, and Russian civilization is not a human the civilization, it is a civilization of oil and gas”,- told Norayr Shabazyan in the conversation with us. It is known that an Armenia attorney is assigned to the case of Hrachya Harutyunyan. “As a man I do not know, I can not give real comment on that, is it possible for Russia to avoid liability. Our task is to do everything that the investigation and judicial process be fair and Hrachya Harutyunyan’s dignity is not offended. But it is a fact that a public noise is raised in Armenia, and only after then the Embassy representatives visited Harutyunyan.” Even before Hrachya Harutyunyan’s case many people have noticed that Russia, with its attitude, is implementing changes that were not agreed with us: gas price increase, selling weapons to Azerbaijan and so on, and Armenia should review the terms of deployment of the Russian military bases. Shabazyan recommends first to define our place, accurately present the past and the history. “For example, in 1603, when the world’s population was not one billion, the Persians displaced 300 thousand Armenians from Armenia. Enormous number. There were many victims. The demography of the territory was changed, an empty space emerged, some nomadic came and inhabited. 300 years later, 300 people would become millions. If the year 1603 were not, would the year 1915 be? Who could have slaughtered? Or, yesterday, “blessed is that time….,” damned is today… Russia’s attitude towards us today and yesterday remained unchanged. Tomorrow, it will be the same if we are not changed if we do not make them respect us.”
And the fact that the war veteran does not participate in actions with a claim to solve the social problems of participants of the war, Norayr Shabazyan said,- “We have fallen into a vicious circle and stalled in one place. The solution of issues is not like that. To the question of “What is corruption”, there are so many answers. Yet there is a simple truth: corruption is the lack of economic management. The economy is managed, but not in within the law and by the laws. We have no problem with freedom fighters; we have a systemic problem. Once they were saying: it’s time to face the villager. I am asking, what was your pose before that. You do not respect your citizen, you are not fair to your villager, and there is no proper treatment, how can you demand such attitude from others. Armenia will soon become the branch of “Gazprom”. Why did we appear to this day? I always remember “The Little Prince”; who is to blame, the person who gives stupid commands, or the executor. The person who gives commands is one, the executors – hundreds. This speaks about our quality. We are destroying our country and blame others? I do not participate in the actions, because fighting must be for the sake of, and not against. Should the knife reach the bone to love each other? Should they humiliate and degrade to begin respecting?”
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Nelly GRIGORYAN
“Aravot” daily
