Petros Makeyan: Crisis cannot be resolved by neutralizing Sasna Dzrer or sending its members to prison (video)
Leader of the Democratic Homeland party, Petros Makeyan, condemns the inhuman, Pinochet-style actions of the security forces. “Police officers with machine guns intimidate people nowadays. It is useless to keep police troops today, they should be sent to the army,” Mr Makeyan told journalists on July 29. He says besides Azerbaijan the Armenian leadership also has another enemy in the person of Armenian society. The arrests of Alek Yenigomshyan and Armen Mikaelyan, both members of the Founding Parliament movement, as well as Levon Barseghyan, Chairman of Gyumri-based Journalists’ Asparez Club, remind Petros Makeyan of 193 ‘when Stalin said it is important to find people to press charges against them.’ He says the authorities are not responding to the demands of the Sasna Dzrer because Serzh Sargsyan wants to benefit somehow from the present situation and delay the surrender of lands. “The crisis should be resolved in a political way, rather than by force. When people go to war, they realize that they will either die or come back home. But when the members of the Sasna Dzrer group stormed the police HQ, they knew that they will either die or be sent to prison,” he said adding that the problem cannot be solved by neutralizing the armed group or sending its members to prisons; new groups will emerge who will also raise their voices in protest against the authorities. Speaking about the medics who are reportedly held hostage by the anti-government gunmen, Mr Makeyan said ‘the guys simply need round the clock care.’ “If they [gunmen] released Valeri Osipyan, then we cannot consider medics hostage in the given circumstances.” In reply to A1+’s question why he was not seen on the platform, the Leader of the Democratic Homeland party said, “I prefer to fight in the field where the people are standing.”
