THE FORMER AUTHORITIES PREPARING TO INSTIGATE CONFLICTS
Kima Yeghyazaryan
Hayots Ashkharh
Dec 14 2007
Armenia
After "National Unity" made a decision (in a November 27 Session)
to participate in the presidential elections with a candidate of
its own, the members of the Armenian pan-National Movement began an
unprecedented campaign of compromise against A. Geghamyan. In a press
conference convened yesterday, NU leader ARTASHES GEGAMYAN touched upon
the accusations and charges addressed to him by the former authorities.
"The developments we see today come to prove that everything is being
done with the purpose of unleashing a civil war in Armenia either
during or after the presidential elections. It is already obvious,
and the former authorities are the advocates of it. They already
realize that they have absolutely no chances for obtaining at least
5-6 per cent of votes; that’s why they instigate civil conflicts,"
A. Geghamyan announced.
Based on the information he possessed, the former authorities are
preparing to instigate disorder on February 19, the day when the
voting is to take place. "We have information that relevant people
will be provoked into organizing acts of disorder in 400-500 electoral
precincts on the voting day. To organize hue-and-cry, to enable their
recommended international structures to interfere in the process,"
he mentioned, disclosing some details of the scenario prepared by
the Armenian pan-National Movement.
And before that, "the former authorities will probably use the foreign
and local press to disseminate false and compromising information in
the address of both the Opposition and the authorities. On top of all,
people may really be stunned by the information published. All that
is being prepared; the relevant players exist."
According to A. Geghamyan, the fact that "National Unity" is the main
target of the former authorities is not at all accidental. Apart from
having no compromising argument against A. Geghamyan, the Armenian
pan-National Movement is unable clear itself of blood.
"After 1990 it never managed to find any compromising argument against
me. Because they never managed to clear themselves of the blood
that so many innocent people shed in the railway station and then
in Sovetashen on May 27, 1990," Mr. Geghamyan announced, reminding
of the May 27 incidents when innocent people died as a result of the
provocation organized by the Armenian pan-National Movement.
As one of the newspapers supporting the Armenian pan-National Movement
reported yesterday, Head of the NU Gavar subdivision was severely
bitten by the Head of the Yerevan Police Department in the presence of
A Geghamyan. And following the rules of the demonstrations organized
near "Nairi" cinema, the newspaper used an indecent word to estimate
A. Geghamyan’s conduct.
In response, the NU leader mentioned that he was not absolutely
surprised by the "Armenian pan-National Movement’s conduct of
compromising people through lies, fraud and blackmail." Especially
when they are well-aware of who their authors are, what kind of people
the members of the Armenian pan-National Movement were before coming
to power, and what the distinguishing features of their own life were.
"Now they are talking about dignity; they are talking about "Nairi"
cinema. It looks as though those people were handing back the empty
bottles of the beer we had drunk in "Nairi" cinema and exchanging
them for beer. And they will say, ‘Geghamyan spoke again.’ This is
who they were. And now they have become a chatterbox and are talking
about anyone they want. What Mher Sedrakyan (the community governor
of Erebuni) said was quite right. They used to swim in Tokhmakh river
and the best job they could give those people was to stand guard for
their clothes, and now "they come to speak about the impoverished
districts and gossip anyone. They don’t even know the town of Yerevan".
Mr. Geghamyan mentioned that he wouldn’t have sunk to the level of the
former authorities and wouldn’t have contradicted them, but he had to,
because during the meeting with LTP it was the ex-President and his
team members that violated the agreement on "mutual correctness".