The “Arab Spring” flourished in 2011 in Tunis, Egypt and later in Libya. “People’s patience is exhausted,” and it came out “to overthrow the dictatorship.” In Syria, the patience was almost about to “be exhausted,” but Bashar al-Assad’s “dictatorship” has not failed yet, and the “Democrats” of the “Islamic state” have not yet come to power there.
Do you remember what the Armenia oppositions were sating in at that time from the tribune of the rallies? They expressed their confidence that the people in Armenia, too, followed by the inspiring example of the “Arab spring”, will be about to “overthrow the dictatorship” and “restore the constitutional order” by handing over the government to the “democrats” like them. True, at that time, it was expected that only the “democrats” will make a revolution and rule without the “bourgeois”, the “bourgeois” were still “bad ones” (even now they have all the chances to “become bad”). There is a special term used among the oppositions of Armenia, “we will tunis them,” in other words, we will do a revolution following the example of Tunis. Or, we will make them feel like Gadhafi.
It is not important that it did not happen in Armenia. More importantly is to what extent the people of the said Arab countries “became happy” as a result if this “spring”. Were more democratic orders established there? Did the people’s living standard rise? Did the citizens create additional physical security safeguards? Or, maybe the Christians (particularly Armenians) benefited?
Now, it seems that “the people’s patience is exhausted” in Yemen. Shia-Hussites perform in the people’s role, who are backed, according to some rumors, by Iran. To the point, it is impossible to record the hypocrisy of the West. When the “Islamic state” kills thousands of people in the vast territories and destroys the centuries-old cultural heritage, Saudi Arabia (viz the United States) takes quite passive posture. When the Shiites want to “overthrow the dictatorship,” the same Saudi Arabia conducts excessively intensive hostilities with its several allies.
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The comparisons are inappropriate, you would say. Indeed, compared with us, they are totally different realities. But in Armenia, comparisons were held, I repeat again, in the spring of 2011, at every rally and in hundreds of squares. Similarities are actually few. The conclusion, in my opinion, is the same (with which many people, however, do not agree): no coup brings any improvements to any country.
And continuing with the comparison, perhaps let’s assume that nowadays Armenian “Hussites” are the Sefilyans?
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
