LEGITIMIZED IRRESPONSIBILITY
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
18-06-2007 11:41:19
Amazingly, the political forces of Armenia touch upon the national
elections in other countries more often and more energetically
than the presidential election of Karabakh, which will be held in a
month. In this case, often and energetic cannot make a comparative
expression because the political forces of Armenia do not speak
about the Karabakh presidential election at all. As if this issue
does not exist for them, it is not interesting to them, as if there
is no Karabakh, there was no and there will be no Karabakh. It is
at least amazing. It is amazing that when there is an opportunity
to speak about the return of the liberated territories, everyone
hurries to state the first that Robert Kocharyan is about to sell
these territories or exchange for his and Serge Sargsyan’s government,
or Serge Sargsyan will exchange them for his government and Robert
Kocharyan’s retirement. The Armenian political forces announce about
it immediately, without second thoughts, because it is an excellent
opportunity for struggle for the Armenian government. In these cases
everyone remembers Karabakh, but they are reluctant to deal with the
presidential election in NKR; usually they say people will choose
and they cannot interfere. In this case, do they have the right to
interfere with the issue of the liberated territories? Do they have
the right to define on people’s behalf that returning territories is
betrayal or political will for the settlement?
Why do the political forces of Armenia use double standard for the
issues related to Karabakh? Whenever they need Karabakh for their plans
in Armenia, it is used, whenever it is not related to these plans,
everyone suddenly decides not to interfere with the affairs of the
people of Karabakh and their election. This duality is typical of
all the political forces, both pro-government and opposition. It is
clear that most political forces of Armenia do not fancy dealing with
Karabakh, especially after the unsuccessful parliamentary election,
when everyone is busy reflecting on their political career. It is
clear that the forces of the coalition government do not dare taste
the pottage they have made in Armenia, let alone focusing on the
Karabakh process. It is clear that the ruling elite of Armenia has
not organized the post-parliamentary life in Armenia fully, and let
Karabakh self-organize. It is clear that the Armenian society is fed
up with the home political life of Armenia and does not want to know
anything about the home political life in Karabakh. It is clear that
in the long run Karabakh is not cash for the Armenian political sphere
and public, but the credit, and a few months after the Armenian
parliamentary election and a few months before the presidential
election nobody wants to exchange the cash for credit.
All this is clear. It is only unclear how this indifference towards
Karabakh will be explained. Who will be using the outcome of the
Karabakh presidential election this time? How many days after the
presidential election will the Armenian political sphere finally
realize the truth soaring in the atmosphere for years on that the
present political process in Armenia got started in Karabakh, at least
because Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan who are, unfortunately,
the only architects of this process, decided to get hold of government
and acquired skills not in Armenia?
Meanwhile, nobody wants to study, take interest in and deal with
the source of the current political process of Armenia because it
presupposes certain responsibility for this process. Therefore, they
can state that everything is decided in Armenia. It is the best way,
free of trouble, because the irresponsibility of the political forces
for everything that happens in Armenia has been legitimized a long
time ago.