Let us summarize the summer and think about what expects us in the fall. The armed group attack on the Patrol-Sentry Service regiment, I believe, will receive its legal assessment. In other respects, there are discrepancies here. The armed political fight in the political culture and public consciousness of the newly independent Armenia is not ruled out. And here, I see the sin not only of the authorities that “has managed”, “has not left any other way out” and so on but also the sin of the intellectuals, human rights activists and public figures, many of whom are afraid to directly state about the unacceptability of such a fight (in that case, they will be reproached), or perhaps, it can be assumed that some international organizations, with whom our public figures cooperate are not also against the armed political struggle.
No clear official assessment is given to the NSS and police actions. Thirty militants were planning to attack the Police Patrol-Sentry Regiment and the leader of these militants, Zhirayr Sefilyan, is in custody for similar charges. Is it not logical to assume that the activities of this group were to be in the core attention of the law enforcers? Then, how did it happen that the armed group managed to realize its plan? How and by whom are the police and other public facilities maintained? Can any armed group attack and capture them? No serious legal and political assessment was given to the numerous lawlessness actions of the police during the July events. In particular, it seems to me that a lot will be changed in Armenia if at least ONE police officer is imprisoned for obstructing the work of journalists during the coverage of these events.
What expects us in the fall? A few days later, the plenary sessions of the National Assembly will be resumed. During the first four days, Zaruhi Postanjyan will try to talk about the July events (naturally, from her revolutionary perspective), Eduard Sharmazanov will turn off Zaruhi’s microphone several times. Generally, many fiery and overly artistic speeches are expected. Most of the websites and Facebook, as they say, “will buzz” about them. All the attempts to improve the Electoral Code will fail under this information noise, and the tax code will be passed in the third reading, the aim of which is to collect additional funds from the citizens who receive “white” income (by leaving the “black” ones in the shadow). Not to mention the fact that mainly the ruling candidates and parties will win in the local self-government elections.
In short, an “interesting” autumn is expected.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
