Local servants of foreign theses

Yerkir/arm
April 22, 2005

Armenians all over the world are commemorating the 90th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide.

Today, many governments, politicians, scholars and regular people
share our pain with us. In Turkey, another round of denial is underway
on the highest governmental level, the same level which executed the
ultimate crime against the humanity. The theses of that campaign have
not changed in the past 90 years: they are not guilty, and if someone
is to blame, it is the victim that is to blame.

Sadly, in Armenia too, this viewpoint is endorsed by those who do not
dismiss any means, including the Turkish propaganda machine, in their
fight against individuals and political forces that advocate national
values. Some political circles pursue concrete political goals: to try
to prove that the current national course of our state is wrong and
that we should give up the key issues of the present foreign policy —
recognition of the Genocide and Artsakh.

What’s more, those circles believe that the key to solving our
problems is the relinquishing of our rights and demands as well as the
reconciliation with the executioner to guarantee our security and
development. It isn’t hard to notice that these views are the
reproduction of the policies conducted in 1991-1998.

As a reminder: it was due to those views that the period encompassing
the Armenian Cause was removed from our history textbooks, and Sevak’s
“Unsilenceable Bell-house” was removed from the literature textbooks
as “provoking enmity towards the neighbors,” open policies of
establishing new relations with Turkey and secret agreements were
being conducted.

What was the answer of the “civilized” Turkey? It shut down the
border, demanded that we give up the process for the Genocide
recognition, and conditioned the establishment of diplomatic relations
with Armenia to withdrawal from Artsakh. Of course, Turkey has been
acting according to its national interests. This was Turkey’s response
to the people who were ready to forget their own dignity.

But these people are pursuing their views again; they have found
undereducated clowns to sing in harmony, and they think that the
position they had bought with money gives them enough right to preach
Turkish views when judging their own people and history, and by
publicly displaying their empty brains and souls they gain an image of
“modern and broad-thinking” politicians.

Their brains are unable to comprehend that security is not begged, it
can be only attained via guarantees such as the recognition of the
Genocide and its condemnation. Looks like that for such people, not
only are the national ideology and national dignity false categories
but also elementary nobility is such.