The enemy who occupied Artsakh captured the former leaders of that republic. That is likely what Samvel Babayan had in mind when, upon arriving in Yerevan, following the propaganda of the RA authorities, he announced that these people should stand before the court. Perhaps he meant the Azerbaijani court. But that propaganda was carried out when the leaders of Artsakh were not yet captured. Now, they are in the prison of the enemy, in the prison of a country where there is no hope of respecting justice and human rights.
What should an average person’s reaction, especially an Armenian person, be to those events? He must feel pain. But look at what’s happening in the “social reality.” Underneath the news, one of the ordinary people wrote, “It’s a pity.” But after that, the “factory of fakes” of the authorities interferes in the case, whose tone of comments is as follows: “Why is it painful? These are Kocharyan’s robbers”.
I consider this one of our most fundamental problems. This problem is not only political; it is a signal, a symbol of the catastrophic disease of our society. Sooner or later, these authorities will go, the “factory of fakes” that injects deadly poison will be closed, and, I hope, the new government will not open its “factory.” Let’s also assume that by some miracle, Armenian Statehood will be preserved until they leave, even though, at this moment, there is a “consensus” between Russia, Turkey, and the West to destroy that Statehood by Pashinyan’s hands.
But even if these political problems are solved, who will heal the clouded, poisoned souls of the people? I see here a vast field of work for intellectuals. And that work needs to be done today. It is unimportant how many people watch or “like” what we say; we are obliged to oppose simple, human, and national values to the cannibalism that dominates the Internet.
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…In Bradbury’s famous novel, when the main task of society and the state is to burn books, a secret society is created, whose members keep specific passages from different books in their memory. It will be necessary when this whole nightmare is over.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
