The second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, presented a serious intent to return to government, and he has tens of thousands of supporters. Some are happy about that fact, others are not, but it is a fact, and it is the responsibility of every journalist to report about that.
But now, let’s try to analyze why this person became the number one member of the opposition when he is personally responsible for March 1st, events such as October 27th took place under his leadership, and someone was killed for greeting him in the wrong way.
Some people are giving the following response: the “velvet” attitude was too much because Kocharyan should have been arrested and shot. To be honest, I have a completely different opinion.
Pashinyan turned the president who left politics into a serious factor. After coming to power, Pashinyan’s first task was to present our state’s history only in black, divide society into revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries (“supporters of the former regime”), and provoke persecution by all possible and impossible, legal and illegal methods.
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People who have a state mentality (such as Nelson Mandela) have drawn the line after the revolution and are trying to unite society. But those who live with small passions, ambitions, and greed behave in the opposite manner; they try to establish themselves, take revenge, and inflame passions. This behavior greatly weakens the state and contributes to defeats, including military defeats. I will not lose hope that people from the first category will lead Armenia- supporters of solidarity, consolidation, and reconciliation. It is obvious that neither Kocharyan nor the acting prime minister are among those people.
When Pashinyan came to power, intelligent people (including those living outside our country) advised him not to persecute Kocharyan with the March 1st case because circulating him in politics and giving him the role of the persecuted will fall back on Pashinyan. But amateurism, populism, and irresponsible thinking won, and prolonged unsuccessful trials turned the lion-hunting retiree into an opposition politician. It’s not that Kocharyan is not to blame for the March 1st case, but the accusation of trying to overthrow constitutional order was absurd and unpromising. I doubt that any individual with a legal education would have voluntarily gotten into that adventure.
The humiliating defeat in the war definitely strengthened Kocharyan’s positions. Of course, it is possible to continue to claim that the second and third presidents were to blame for that defeat. That argument upsets people with some level of intellect.
Aram Abrahamyan
