LOSING COURAGE
Aram Abrahamian

Aravot.am
01 Sept 06

Our newspaper is sometimes accused of «losing courage of
people’. We don’t have a mission to inspire or despair people, we
simply inform people and note its reasons. Let me give some examples:

We wrote in our yesterday issue that the hot weather would stay some
more days. There is no inspiring element in that news. We’d like to
write that tomorrow the weather will be fine and cool, it would be
better for us to write that neither hot summer nor cold winter will be
in Armenia. But that optimism will oppose the reality, laws of nature,
hydrometeorology’s forecast.

We have written for many times, normal elections won’t be held for the
present generation. The reason of this affirmation is the following:
there are several `gegham badalian’ in every polling station, such a
person who is supported by the ruling clique, rob, engages in
different illegal activities, is ready to fire and kill once in 4-5
years, rig the elections in favor of the authority. The whole state,
especially power system supports those persons.

Decades must pass to change that situation as neither «political will
of the ruling clique» nor«people’s revolt» will solve the problem.

Today is September 1. Senior pupils will go to school several weeks
then each of them will attend their private classes. It’s also a
public regularity the reason of which is the lack of `stationary’
school, which is replaced by ` tutorial» one.

However strange it is, second and third problems are connected with
each other. If there is any hope something will be changed during
decades, it will be done by improvement of new generation, new
citizens, and new culture. So don’t lose courage.