Suzy Gevorgyan’s beating causes interest mainly to the supporters of the “camp”
The beginning of 2016 was marked by one heinous event. According to “New Armenia” public salvation camp, “on January 5, at 19 pm, two strong build middle-aged men trapped the supporter of “New Armenia” camp, Russian resident Suzy Gevorgyan, haunted her and then jumping on her threw on the ground and kicked her on the head, face and different parts of the body causing minor injuries.” The assault over the 23-year-old activist, I think, is the kind of crimes that will not be disclosed. Not because the police cannot do it but because the beater, one way or another, are connected, as we used to say earlier, with the “authorities” even if they officially do not have an “ID” and represent an indefinite social group called a “neighborhood hooligan.”
However, the main reason why this crime will not be disclosed is the public indifference. This is the case when alternative versions are excluded. If an activist does something that from the police point of view is not allowed by the law and a scuffle begins between the activist and the police, then we can discuss here who is right and who is wrong. But in given case, the girl had just come out to go to a store and the attackers were waiting for her specifically targeting her, so here we can speak about a “punitive action” organized by someone, irrespective of whether this action is dictated by purely political or “semi-personal” reasons.
Such proceedings will be disclosed if the acts of violence are unequivocally condemned not only by the political supporters of the activist but also by all honest people. I, for example, am not a fan of the “salvation camp” (starting from this lofty name), I am against the allusions of “armed struggle against the authorities” and the tendency to terrorist methods, which is known still from “Dro” structure. But all this has absolutely nothing to do with the beating of Suzy, it is also a disgusting form of terrorism against people.
Do you know writers, painters, other figures of art who have condemned this violence? If there are, then they are very few. As far as I know, even the parties have not come up with relevant statements. And if only the supporters of the “camp” are talking about attacking Suzy, then it turns out that it is merely the affair of the “camp”, to which the rest of the citizens do not want to interfere. This is why there is absolutely no pressure over the law enforcers to disclose this crime.
Explaining the cause of this phenomenon by purely the fear left from the “Soviet”, it seems to me, is not enough. Maybe, the older generation has the genetically transmitted fear of “knocking at the door and taking to an unknown direction”. But the “Soviet” is gone to the past 25 years ago, but the risk of losing the position and the income is available with a very narrow circle of people. What about the rest? A worse phenomenon is observed in the rest of them than the fear. It is the blunt indifference. “Yeah, it is clear, an ownerless country. What can you do?” This bluntness, it seems to me, is more difficult to overcome than the fear, the talks about the “ownerless country”, “spoiled nation” and even “their money in sacks” as if “come to replace” the civic posture.
Earlier, they were talking in the kitchen, now, on the Facebook. The difference is not big.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN,
Aravot Daily
