27 years have passed since the beginning of the Karabakh movement. We asked the Head of the Tavush regional office of the Writers’ Union of Armenia, the writer of Noyemberyan city Samuel Beglaryan about the movement’s achievements, shortcomings and mistakes. He said, “When it started with environmental matters, Abovyan’s movement reached the Yerevan city square. We understood that it was just a mask, a cover, a shield, there was a subtext, there were lower obstacles, it was a national movement and a national awakening. And the fact that we began with expectations and we saw what was the beginning. If we compare it with today, I am very much sorry, but it happens that very nice parents give birth to defective children, defective generations. And today, 20-25 years later, as a result we are having a child who was born with heart defect and acquired it after the birth. In my opinion, it was acquired later, at the beginning it was very clean, very pure and nationwide.
Later, it got sick with an untreatable virus. And today, hundreds and thousands of people speculate saying that they were at the sources of the national liberation movement. But as a flag, it fits in the National Assembly and the offices. Today, the Karabakh movement and being a participant of the national liberation movement has become a tortoise shell, in other words, they are protected with this. Anyway, homeland is not something to whom the fact of your being in service is made a flag. It is our obligation to serve. In other words, it turns out that the Karabakh movement did not reach its goal, but serves the goals of the individuals and personalities. It’s a very bad situation and a very sad situation. However, it does not mean we should separate Armenia-Karabakh, Armenia-Diaspora. We have one nation – ill-fated and scattered around the world. Today, it is a sad situation when the Turks declare, “What Armenian diaspora; they have gone from our country, it is ours. Today, Azerbaijan says that Karabakh belongs to it. In other words, we are constantly fighting to say that what we imagined is ours. This is a tragic situation. When there is a problem of a nation, we must forget the people who have made the Karabakh movement a flag, who make the Karabakh movement serve their person. We have to forget it.”
Voskan SARGSYAN
