The situation in Artsakh is challenging; children go hungry for days. How should we react to it thoroughly and safely (for now), Yerevan? Asking everyone not to go to cafes, celebrate birthdays, or do their daily work is wrong and ineffective. Everyone arranges his personal life as he sees fit. It seems appropriate to urge the citizens to show some tact towards compatriots in a catastrophic situation, even more so when there are people who are rude and filled with malice, hatred, and aggression.
That aggression, of course, has a psychological explanation. When a person closes his ears, stomps his feet on the ground, and shouts, “I don’t want to hear about Artsakh” (consider it a metaphor that describes the psychological state), he thus protects himself; to put it briefly, he protects his mental peace. The exact mechanism works when he says: “The former robbed, the Russians cheated us, and what should poor Nikol do?” If he doesn’t say this, he must explain why he voted for “poor Nicole” in 2021. And if he explains, he should at least partially take responsibility for the human and territorial losses of the last two years.
But, let me repeat, how private individuals show themselves is their personal business. And how the RA authorities perform their duties is not a personal matter. What are they doing so that the children of Artsakh do not go hungry? There are two answers to that question: unofficial, sincere, and official-hypocritical. The first one was given by one of the deputies of the Civil Contract: those children are beyond their scope of responsibility, aren’t Armenians also in Glendale, Javakhk, Australia?
The answer’s second official version is: “We are fighting for the rights and security of the people of Artsakh on international platforms.” But before the 2021 elections, the same authorities promised to fight for the self-determination of Artsakh and the “secession for salvation” thesis. Then they announced that Artsakh is an inseparable part of Azerbaijan.
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Now do we have the right to doubt their “fight” for “security and rights”?
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
