In one of his last interviews, former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan expressed his belief that the culprit is not so much the Turks nor, even more so, the foreign players, as we are. “I’m guilty too… I should have shouted louder so that my voice could be heard. How can a nation that has seen 3,500 years of statehood make such mistakes,” Bagratyan asks, referring, in particular, to the elections of the majority of citizens in 2018 and 2021.
“The year 2018 is clear to me. Serzh Sargsyan, who held the position of president for two terms, said: “Now I will rule the country indefinitely,” which was highly offensive to the citizens.
I considered the anger that arose among people to be, and although I did not vote for “My step,” and in general, I always spoke against revolutions, I understood people’s choices.
In 2021, after losing the war, our people made a terrible mistake, and we are enjoying the consequences of that mistake today, and, unfortunately, we will still enjoy it tomorrow. No matter how loudly I shout, “Dear compatriots, you have made a mistake,” my voice will not be heard. So, Mr. Bagratyan is correct, but partially, the volume of the voice is irrelevant here.
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Today’s blockade of Artsakh is also a consequence of the mistake of 2021. And now I, working in the media field, speaking publicly and writing about that brutal aggression daily, can state that most Armenians, though they have heard of such a problem, still do not imagine the scale of the disaster. Or rather, they don’t want to hear about it because it violates their mental comfort.
And since “political arguments” based on the propaganda theses of the government “formers, Russians, etc.” are brought for this “ostrich behavior,” I assume that it is the continuation of the mistake of 2021.
I don’t know how I should shout to move people’s mercy.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
