In Yerevan, various public groups and individuals are protesting against the blockade of Artsakh, expressing concern about the fate of their compatriots under siege. Thousands of people sitting at home do not share these concerns and make various judgments about these initiatives on social networks.
Some people find that the efforts to prevent the humanitarian disaster in Artsakh are the topic that allows one to show one’s infinite cuteness. Some people think that this question should be approached from the point of view of geopolitical orientations: “Why are you sitting near the UN office? Go sit near the Russian embassy?”, “No, the place to demonstrate should be only the RA government.”
The most “insightful” explain the conspiratorial nature of these initiatives and point to the centers from which they are directed.
It seems that all these conversations do not bring honor to us Armenians. If a 20-year-old girl takes a piece of paper, writes on it: “Save the children of Artsakh,” and goes out into the street, she may not immediately save those children. But she saves herself and, by and large, our society protects from the disease of cynicism, disbelief, doubting each other, not loving each other, not being united. And the preservation and spread of this disease is, of course, beneficial to the authorities. “Everything is theater, everything is acting, and it’s done for money” – this kind of marginal thinking is the basis of any authoritarian regime.
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Suppose a person says that Artsakh should not be part of Azerbaijan and is ready to take any, even symbolic, step for it. In that case, it is absolutely unimportant to me whether he is a representative of the Civil Contract, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or the Republican Party of Armenia. The presence of such people inspires hope that our society can recover.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
