Chairman of Tseghakron party, Shant Harutyunyan, still two years ago had decided that he was going to carry out a revolution in Armenia in 2013. It was this decision that led him to the Liberty Square for a timeless hunger strike. As to how he views the revolution with a hunger strike, Mr. Harutyunyan does not explain, “Should I have come with a poster, they would have said how he views carrying out a revolution with a poster, should I have come with flags, they would have said how he views carrying out a revolution with flags. What is significant? ” According to him, one cannot carry out a revolution, but it could be one of us to start. To our question whether he intends to gather the revolutionaries around him, he said, “I have no intention. I think that the situation in Armenia is such that everyone understands that without a radical change, which is called a revolution, the country can not be regulated. There are many people who want to change values in the country, making major changes; it is likely that they will come out to the streets, as well.
I realize that I’m not Tork Angegh, and I can not carry out revolution alone, but I have come out of the fight.” As to what actions has he developed to carry out the revolution he wanted, Shant Harutyunyan did not want to mention. He has not thought about how to make a revolution if nobody joins him. “I have no problem with gathering people around me. I’ve come out for the revolution, I know that my fight is right. If I do not do this righteous step, I would discredit myself. This is simply necessary. Why shouldn’t I come out to fight, to sacrifice the truth, why should I reach consensus with fabrication?” To our question that he went on hunger strike against the fabrication during the presidential elections, did it change the situation, what the sit-in strike will change, Mr. Harutyunyan said, “Why do you remember it… I, as a citizen, have kept my active civic position, although I had not considered the hunger strike at the presidential elections as a tool of fight to save the country. I have considered the revolution as the only tool to save the country.”
He believes that his sit-in strike will change the situation I the country only “When the public consciousness is changed. It depends on the atmosphere of the country. If this is the situation, nothing will change. If you can activate the feelings of a layer, for which there are other values: life in truth, civic consciousness, then the situation will change. But if all have put up with the lies, have become adaptable, even if hundreds of thousands of political power get out to the street, nothing will change.” Shant Harutyunyan believes that his commenced fight is penultimate stage of the revolution, and at the last stage, “The victory can be corroborated only by the change of the power.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
