It is clear from the logic of the behavior and actions of the opposition that they don’t know the current government very well. Suppose one government, after 30 years of independence, is ready to consider Armenia as part of Azerbaijan forgetting tens of thousands of human victims, ignoring the 30 years of struggles and sufferings of Artsakh and Armenian people.
In that case, they won’t hand over the power and will do everything possible to bring to naught the demand of the opposition.
We all know what steps the opposition is taking and what is happening in France square since April 25. But the decisive factor is that the people’s approaches are not united, they share different opinions, which means a lot. The part of the people who agree with the demands of the opposition and participate in the acts of disobedience and rallies, and the part that is indifferent or is against the opposition follow the events at home and doesn’t join the actions.
The events that happened 10-12 days ago, come to prove that in the case of such continuation, the number of people on average would be the same. And opposition cannot succeed with that number of people.
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I think that the opposition should improve their strategies and tactics to increase the number of people, as let me repeat, it’s impossible to succeed with that number of people. The situation is clear: either the opposition gathers a critical number of people (at least 100 000 people) through these changes and builds their further steps on exact calculations, or everything ends without any results, or the most unwanted scenario, it will most likely end with a civil war, which is the worst outcome.
I can only say that the struggle can transform into a civil war at any moment, which will weaken our country, and this is the abiding dream of our enemy. In fact, we have reached a line today where the danger of a civil war is not excluded. So both the government and the opposition should be vigilant and try to avoid the fatal clash which will finally throw our country into the abyss.
Anania Makhakyan
Corresponding member at Engineering Academy of Armenia
