ACCORDING TO RUBEN HAKOBIAN, NATIONAL MOVEMENT COMES UP FROM POSITIONS OF TOTALITARIAN OPPOSITION

NOYAN TAPAN

JU NE 18

"The RA authorities compel the people to pass a long and complicated
way to reach elementary norms of democracy," Ara Sahakian, the former
Vice-Speaker of the parliament, stated at the June 18 dispute. He
affirmed that the political opposition has become "heresy " today,
the members of which "should be either burnt in the fire or spend
their whole life in prison." According to A. Sahakian, if during
the 1988 movement the communist authorities treated the movement
activists the way the current authorities treat the oppositionists,
the wave of struggle would weaken, and "the Azeris would devour the
Karabakh people."

Ruben Hakobian, a former member of ARFD, in his turn, said that
the authorities and the President are representatives of strict
authoritarian system, the resource of which is not people’s vote,
but force levers.

According to him, the National Movement comes up from
positions of totalitarian opposition denying any other opposition
organization. Under the circumstance of existence of such authorities
and opposition, as the former ARFD member concluded, the state will
finally find itself in a complicated situation, and country’s security
will weaken.

A. Sahakian opposing to R. Hakobian said that "an alternative to
totalitarian opposition is mincing opposition," which pushes forward
its personal interest.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress