SAMVEL BABAYAN: WE DO HAVE A WAY TO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE EXISTING CLAN

Noyan Tapan
Apr 20 2007

ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Dashink" (Alliance) party
has no goal to overcome the 5% at the parliamentary elections and
have a small faction at the new National Assembly. Party Chairman
Samvel Babayan stated about it at the April 19 meeting with voters in
Etchmiadzin. In his words, being represented with a small number of
deputies will not give them possibility to influence on the political
processes of the country. S. Babayan mentioned that he observes the
pre-electoral campaign and does not find a word to comment upon it: in
his words, "politicians giving today promises will forget all us in 5
years." In the "Dashink" head’s opinion, any state functions according
to the laws written by a deputy but "if those laws are dictated by a
group of people and they only press a button at the parliament hall,
then we are condemned to live in the conditions like the present ones."

Responding a question of one of those present, if he was taken to
the NSS and examined laid on the floor, he mentioned that "there is
no such a person who will be able to stand in front of me and speak,"
so it can not even be spoken about laying him on the floor. He added
that similar rumours are spread tendentiously in order to show that
"there is no way to struggle against the existing clan," whereas,
in his words, "there is a way: this way is our struggle itself."

Touching upon the arrest of Zhirayr Sefilian, the coordinator of the
"In Defence of Liberated Territories" public-political initiative,
commander of the "Shoushi" battalion, S. Babayan mentioned that he
did not know what anti-constitutional statements Sefilian made but he
observed events being promoted on his arrest. "The reason of Zhirayr
Sefilian’s arrest was that Samvel Babayan attempted to unite around
him boys passed through the war, including Sefilian as well," the
"Dashink" head concluded.