SHAVARSH KOCHARIAN: LEVON TER-PETROSYAN BROKE SPIRIT OF THE MOVEMENT OF 1988, AND WE’LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM IT
2007-12-04 22:15:00
ArmInfo. "Levon Ter-Petrosyan broke the spirit of the movement of 1988
and we’ll never forgive him it", Leader of National Democratic Party
Shavarsh Kocharyan said during his meeting with journalists, Tuesday.
According to him, the Karabakh Liberation Movement had a big inner
potential, which wasn’t used by the new authorities of the independent
Armenia. "In 1995 the Constitution, which was not democratic even by
African standards, was imposed to us by way of mass falsifications. It
was initially impossible to build a democratic state basing on such
a Constitution", Sh. Kocharyan said.
The politician qualified the events of 1996, when the meeting of the
then opposition was dispersed, which demanded vote-recount during the
presidential election, as a tremendous blow to the basic institute of
democracy-election. "There was no falsification of election results
in 1996.
This refers to a basic revolution, when the regime kept the authority
with the help of tanks in the streets. However, now I don’t predict
developments with such a scenario", Shavarsh Kocharyan emphasized.