Day.Az, Azerbaijan
March 5 2008
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER’ "MAIN BATTLE TO COME"
interview with political expert Zardust Alizada
[Correspondent] Zardust muallim [mode of address], what is behind
surprise intensification on the front lines inTartar and Kalbacar
districts? Why does Armenia need it?
[Alizada] I deeply regret for our soldiers who are dying there.
Nevertheless, I do not see far-reaching consequences of the
skirmishes. The Karabakh clique ruling over Armenia is completely
dependent on the USA, Russia and Europe, andthey, in their turn, are
pursuing only a sole aim – to freeze the conflict. Here is the gang
of Kocharyan-Sargsyan, who has usurped power and is just making time!
They are happy about this – they view Armenia as their sinecure.
[Correspondent] What is your attitude towards [former Armenian
president] Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s appeal to waittill the state of
emergency is over? Is this step correct?
[Alizada] The matter is that Ter-Petrosyan is a decent, pragmatic and
clever man with his ethical norms and morals.He does not want to send
Armenian people under bullets of the Karabakh swines – who do not
eight or 80 of their owncitizens are killed. At the same time, the
state of emergency will not continue eternally, so Levon
Ter-Petrosyan’smain battle is to come.
[Correspondent] What is his trump-card?
[Alizada] Apart from his doubtless personal qualities, it is a fact
that the Armenian society has split and the abyssis growing. The
cultural layer of the Armenians has been tired of supremacy of those
from Karabakh, thosepseudo-patriots-roarers! What have those babblers
done for them?
At the same time, we should admit that the Armenian public is now
reaping fruits of its own mistakes. When in theearly 1990s Kocharyan,
Sargsyan and others were killing Azerbaijanis many people in Armenia
were bashfully justifyingthem, saying it was necessary for national
interests. And now they started killing Armenians and this is a
clearmanifestation of the existing bloody regime in Armenia.
[Correspondent] Has the regime been allocated historically much time?
[Alizada] No, similar regimes are unproductive, ineffective and
unstable. If the Armenian diaspora and the USA stopgiving money to
Armenia, these authorities will burst like a soap-bubble. The
Karabakh clique exists at the expense ofthis money. As soon as
geopolitical realities change – they will be ousted.
Kocharyan himself admitted that he delivered 15,000 Karabakh
residents and appointed them to senior posts. This meansthere are
maximum 70,000 residents in Karabakh, plus 40,000-45,000 people leave
Armenia annually. How do you call it?You are right – a catastrophe!