It has been already 8 years since we cannot be fully happy with the first day of the spring because it is stuck in our minds as “March 1”. It is clear that the murder of 10 innocent people will remain a psychological burden as long as until their perpetrators and those who have commanded to kill them do not undergo trial. This is not a thirst for revenge but just a desire to feel secure more or less. I am confident that it does not require superhuman efforts to reveal this crime, there should be just a political will, which is missing for now. If the next government displays this will, then, I am afraid, wet and dry will be mixed together and it will turn into a political retribution.
So happened after February 1998 when comparatively the new government probably based on some complexes had the temptation to take revenge of the representatives of the “previous criminal regime.” Justice must be committed now, it will no longer be justice in two years.
“The necessity to reveal March 1 has been discussed and today it will be talked a lot. I am more concerned about another event in this regard that seems has no connection with the slaughter – the decision by the NA Ethics Committee – not to condemn the aggressive style of expression by one of the deputies. One “rebukes” the opponent’s different opinion with the prospect of cutting off his ear, the other one – threatening to rape. However, this is considered to be a normal and routine process, no significance is given to the value of speech.
Whereas if someone says, for example, “these ones must be shot”, these are not just words said into the air. They are variations which joining other variations eventually lead to an explosion. “October 27” and “March 1” are such explosions that have brought our country back for several years and maybe decades. Let us remember what vocabulary was used by the “conflicting parties” prior to the 2008 elections, incidentally, the government authorities were 10 times more aggressive with their “Armnews-type” microphones.
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When a labor of the “black-labor market” “throws into the air” threats like “cutting off the ear” and “raping”, it is a little sky like a tobacco smoke, but when the same is done by a deputy or a journalist, it looks like a huge emission from a toxic workshop of a huge factory. The perpetrators of March 1 must be punished, there is no doubt about it. But it is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for avoiding the recurrence of such crimes.
… To the point, neither at home nor anywhere else, neither in real nor in virtual space, no one has ever threatened me to cut off my ears. Nor, of course, I have threatened.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
