MORALS AND MANNERS OF OUR COUNTRY
Aram Abrahamian

Aravot.am
07 Sept 06

As it is known, journalism isn’t one of the most dangerous
professions. It’s better to work as the head of district. You sit
at your residence; take bribes, pay others and you have nothing to
worry about. Being a customs or tax inspector isn’t also bad. But it
is also relative, as it was affirmed yesterday.

Our main newspapers /including Â"IravunqÂ"/ have 3-4 publications,
which touch human interests, abuse and offend them. The offended person
has several ways to act: 1/ not to pay attention to the publication,
2/ try to answer, 3/ to turn to the court, 4/ to beat the author
or editor-in-chief.

This last way of reaction, which is illegal and immoral and which
was used against editor-in-chief of Â"IravunqÂ" newspaper Hovhannes
Galajian, shows the morals and manners of our state.

Everyday we face to those morals and manners. For instance, our
newspaper published that Tatul Manaserian’s had left "Justice". We
tried to speak to Mr.

Manaserian supposing that he would like to give explanations. But
the parliamentarian refused because he was offended. A person phoned
me in the same day instead and said that I MUST publish his article
defending Mr. Manaserian.

Threats and violence are used instead of civil way of solution.

As I understand, Robert Kocharian and Serge Sargsian are less
interested in using violence against journalists. Each case of
such violence is recorded in all kind of international reports as
the greatest "minus" of our state and authority. I don’t think that
Galajian’s attack is ordered by the highest authority. But we have all
reasons to accuse just the authorities for that violence. Because Hamo
from Bangladesh and Â"Alraghatsi Lyovik’sÂ" guard of Tzakhkadzor villa
have got light punishments for using violence against journalists
on May 5, 2005. Because the morals and manners of our country are
like this.

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