Opinion: Crowds cannot rule, they can be guided (video)
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has not made a statement in connection with the events taking place in Yerevan’s Erebuni district where a police compound was seized on Sunday by an armed group calling itself Sasna Dzrer. The position of the ruling party is unclear up to this moment. Nor is it known which charges will be levied against the gunmen that hold four police officers hostage inside the building. Judging from the stance of the HHK, political analyst Aghasi Yenokyan concluded that ‘the government is not adequate in their actions.’ “On the other hand, making ungrounded and inopportune arrests, the police forced people to take to the street to support their friends and adherents,’ he said. “This must be a warning to the authorities. When someone poses demands to the authorities, they use it in the opposite direction – they create a new constitution which is much less democratic, they amend the Electoral Code which puts the issue of fair elections into question. The last step of the government is more disgusting – they suspend recreational component of social packages as part of the fight against corruption. The social package is used by 200 thousand people in Armenia and the government is punishing all of them,” Mr Yenokyan said. Karen Aghamyan, President of the Artist's Union of Armenia, says ‘street-style politics will lead to nothing good’ and it may have bad consequences. Many do not know or have forgotten that the Karabakh movement started because of environmental problems. People took to the streets to raise environmental issues, but later the movement took a different turn. These scenarios were developed long ago and we have witnessed destruction of countries. Let us not forget what happened in Lebanon, Syria and Ukraine. “Crowds cannot rule, they can be guided,” Karen Aghamyan said in conclusion.
