ON BEHALF OF WHICH ARMENIA SERGE SARGSYAN APPEALED TO YOUNG PEOPLE?
Hakob Badalyan

Lragir
Oct 30 2007
Armenia

In a meeting with Armenian students in France Serge Sargsyan told them
Armenia needs them, they must return, Armenia is waiting for them,
and why not, they should also work in the government. It is difficult
to tell how many students could not fall asleep that night longing for
the day when they will finish their studies and return to Armenia. It
is also difficult to tell what those young people are going to do in
Armenia. If they are going to set up a political party and declare
it to be the only party in the political sphere but in reality will
ensure a change of generation worth this political quality, these
young people will be highly demanded here. But the problem is other
than this. The problem is what Serge Sargsyan meant by saying Armenia
when he appealed to young people and said they are highly demanded in
Armenia. If Armenia is the country where Serge Sargsyan is a prime
minister and is going to be president, the Armenian students abroad
will hardly believe that in this country anyone needs knowledge. Can
Serge Sargsyan show in real life that the country needs qualified
young people? In fact, there is need but is the country waiting for
these young people?

If those skilled young people come to work in Armenia, what will
the sons and sons-in-law of the nicknamed members of parliament,
ministers, their relatives and friends, their bodyguards be doing,
who are now raiding Yerevan defying every law and rule but their
wishes? Are the fathers and uncles of these young people who have
divided the country among themselves and drawn the borders of the
habitat of the others waiting for these young people to come? Have
they left a place between these borders for young people with European
education and qualification? If they have, it is important to specify
what place they have left because the place of a slave is also a
place. Armenia certainly needs educated and skilled young people
but what is Armenia? What does each person understand by saying
Armenia? For one, Armenia is power and all the favors of power,
wealth, welfare, land, water, mines, an invaded beach of the Sevan
and forest of Tsaghkadzor, for others Armenia is life becoming more
expensive every day, mores and values degrading lower every day,
dignity hurt every day, peaceful protestors undergoing violence,
unpunished and cynical policemen, skinheads. Which Armenia now
needs educated young people? On behalf of which Armenia did Serge
Sargsyan appeal to young people? Can he protect these young people
from attacks against every decent and law-abiding person in Armenia
who defies daily humiliation but at the same time does not want to
humiliate others? If he can protect these young people, why does he
protect hundreds of thousands of citizens who are already in Armenia
and have had no possibility to live or study abroad?

If he fails to protect the right of these citizens to live a dignified
life, the meeting with young students is just a political technology
which will affect the given activist but never life in the country.