Who is “bred” by the RPA?
00:00, December 7, 2011 | News | Rights of Soldiers/Recruits | Armed Forces
MP Karen Avagyan, the head of the RPA Youth Branchmade a speech at yesterday’s session of the Armenian Parliament. His speech was against Artur Sakunts, Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor, and the topic was the army. Sakunts deals with the issues of criminalities in the army.
Avagyan declared that the ‘grant-consumers’ are acting against the army; they are traitors and are adding water to the enemy’s mill, and so on and so forth. “Nowadays, Sakunts and other people with no homeland are given a very mild name, ‘grant-consumers’, but there was a time when the people who received international money and promoted foreign interests in their country were called spies or traitors. … Anything connected to the armed forces is too valuable for us and we will not allow people like you to discredit the most well established institution in Armenia. Mr. Sakunts, we would gladly wrap you and present you to Azerbaijanis or the Turks, but I am afraid they will refuse to accept such a valuable gift,” declared the young Republican.
The quote is enough to imagine the mentality and the psychology governing the Armenian Elite, and to understand how they view the solution of significant problems in their country and society.
However, setting aside the government ‘standards’, we can pose a few questions to this MP. It is not a secret that Armenia has been living on international grants: transfers, donations, assistance, and preferential loans, for a long time. Thanks to the RPA government, Armenia has become a ‘grant-consumer’. These resources are used to pay salaries and pensions, and to build various infrastructures and so on. Does that mean Armenia has become a ‘traitor’? If yes, then give up those “grants”, and why aren’t you doing it?
As to the RPA ‘patriots,’ who offer their chest to protect the army from legal claims of the public, we are faced with a more ridiculous situation. It appears that many of the young ‘patriotic’ Republicans, including Karen Avagyan, the vice-speaker of the NA, Eduard Sharmazanov, the Mayor of Yerevan, Taron Margaryan, and the sons of many of their older fellow Republicans, have not served in the army, in the Armenian Army, in our national Army.
Guys, go to the army, voluntarily, go to the front-line, pay your debt to your homeland 500-100 meters away from the enemy’s entrenchments! This would be a real patriotic step. That is where the nation needs you. In addition, you would ‘have the right’ to speak about the army, as the army administration likes to reiterate. Go, win that right!