WHY ARE ARMENIANS KILLED?
Aram Zakaryan

Lragir.am
15 June 06

Vsevolod Maryan announced in an interview with the news agency
Regnum that gangs in Russia spend an annual 50 million dollars
for killing Armenians. In 1999-2001 Vsevolod Maryan was adviser to
the Russian foreign minister on ethnicities. He suggests speaking
about this problem openly and assures that press gives only some
crumbs of the reality. In fact, about 3000 Armenians were killed in
Russia over the past decade, he says. According to him, discussion and
cultural events will not produce any results. It should be revealed and
countered. This is for everyone and namely Ara Abrahamyan who announces
that nothing extraordinary has happened. Whereas, denying that killings
of Armenian young men in Moscow is a tendency is burying your head
in the sand. Accepting it means understanding and preventing. On the
other hand, one may not accept it if they are reluctant, such as Ara
Abrahamyan, citizen of Russia, the president of the Union of Armenians
of Russia and the World Congress of Armenians.

After the second killing Ara Abrahamyan said fewer Armenians are
killed than Tajiks. First of all, it should be noted that it is at
least unserious to count human lives like cucumbers or melons.

Besides, the phrase "fewer Armenians are killed" means that Armenians
are nevertheless killed. However, Ara Abrahamyan does not seem to be
worried. His only concern is to stick to the principle "our tsar is
the best tsar." Even in arriving in Armenia to chide Georgia for the
sake of Russia.

The Armenian political forces, the leaders of various pan-Armenian and
anti-Armenian organizations had better think for a while why Armenians
are killed. How does it happen that with Russian-Armenian friendship
and Russian-Georgian hostility Armenians are killed in Russia,
whereas Georgians do not even hear a bitter word? Or why does the
Russian government remember Ara Abrahamyan only when Russian mariners
are to be released or murders are to be justified for a lot of money?

Or maybe Russia dislikes our "never-ending" devotion?