"IT’S NOT DISPATCHERS OF BUS ROUTES WHO DECIDE TO MAKE HEROES OUT OF COMMANDERS OF MILITARY UNITS OR NOT"
Lragir, Armenia
July 19 2007
A few days ago Member of Parliament Galust Sahakyan, member of the
council of the Republican Party, stated there is no need to make
heroes out of Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan who were charged
with appeals against the constitutional order in Armenia. In a news
conference on July 19 the political secretary of the Defense of
Liberated Territories Civil Initiative Armen Aghayan responded to
Galust Sahakyan.
"It’s not dispatchers of bus routes who decide to make heroes out
of commanders of military units or not. I think Galust Sahakyan’s
statement is the evaluation of the reality that is revealed at the
court of law. The government realizes that it is time to digest
this pottage but they cannot digest for whatever reason and they
try through such pronouncements to distract attention from the main
issue that Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan are innocent,"
Armen Aghayan stated.
Armen Aghayan also stated that the truth is distorted to accuse
Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan, Jirair Sefilyan’s words
are extracted from the context. Jirair Sefilyan said let us not
discriminate means of change of the government. "Our wish to change
the government is great but it does not allow us make absurd moves,"
Armen Aghayan stated and explained. "Jirair Sefilyan did not speak
about changing the government through weapon and force but through
organized actions and said let us first become organized and then
speak about not discriminating the means. The people who joined the
Union of Armenian Volunteers believe that it is important to organize
people and not the opposition forces, if a figure managed to bring
together people, it would not be crucial to bring together the others."