March: 26, 2026
Arman Tatoyan, head of the “Wings of Unity” political initiative, writes: “A mistake born of incompetence is often more dangerous than the crime itself.
Today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of Armenia [Nikol Pashinyan] that he is abandoning the agenda of “restoring historical justice” is a mistake born of strategic incompetence.
If the crime can be prevented or condemned, then the inability [that is strategic] cannot be corrected later. it simply destroys what existed.
Germany has not erased the memory of the Holocaust and has become the main ally of Israel in Europe. Israel itself has built one of the strongest states in the region on memory.
India has not given up the colonial trauma narrative and trades with Britain, the traumatized country, on its own terms. Spain has turned its common history with Latin America, full of victims, blood and pain, into a civilizational project. “Hispanidad” has become an instrument of influence over twenty countries.
The Europe we aspire to has built its integration on the very memory of the Second World War. “never again” has become not a rejection of the past, but a basis for the future.
None of them chose between the true memory of the people and today’s false media reality. All of them turned memory into a tool for working with reality.
Armenia has not learned this yet. The right answer to not knowing is not to give up. The correct answer is to learn.
This is what it means to be specific.
Diplomacy: Genocide Recognition Program: Recognition by at least five new countries within four years. Not announcements, but parliamentary votes with a clear program for each country.
Right: international lawsuit regarding the rights of Artsakh Armenians to the International Court of Justice or the European Court of Human Rights. A lost property register as a basis for future legal claims.
Institutes a compulsory course in schools on historical memory – not just a date on the calendar, but a subject. Artsakh Armenian Heritage State Documentation Center.
Memory is not a ritual. It is work.
And that is exactly what we will do.”
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