AS A RESULT EVERYONE BENEFITS
Lilit Poghosyan
Hayots Ashkhar
Published on March 11, 2008
While Armenia is concentrated on overcoming the "big confrontation"
imposed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, in Azerbaijan they are happy to state
that it is too early to speak about the stabilization of the situation
and that civil war is unavoidable.
Meanwhile they sound cymbals that Armenian society is split and 1/3
of Armenia is ready to cede Karabakh.
In response to our questions RPA vice Chair Razmik Zohrabyan touches
upon these issues.
"Actually in Azerbaijan they are really enthusiastic about the tragic
events that took place in Armenia on March 1-2 and with evident
happiness they announce that a leader appeared in Armenia who raised
issues concerning Karabakh, Armenia, and in general the region, and
1/3 of Armenians (the conversation is about the 21%) has voted for
reducing the number of the army, establishing "friendly relations
with Turkey and Azerbaijan, and solving Karabakh issue in favor of
Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
And unfortunately there is certain truth in all this. From now on
both Azerbaijan and the West can state that the 350 thousand citizens
who voted for Levon Ter-Petrosyan are tired of Karabakh and consider
the failure of the solution of this issue the main reason of their
social problems, and that these people are ready to settle this issue
as soon as possible and at any price. But this is not true.
Among those 350 thousand voters there are different layers of
disapproved.
Some of them are disapproved of their social condition, and they
accuse the authorities of their bad social condition, that is why
they voted against the authorities and they gave preference to the
radical candidate.
There is another layer of the disapproved. From the beginning Levon
Ter-Petrosyan started a total anti-Karabakh campaign, announcing
that "Karabakh clan" has occupied the power, has established a
"Mongol-Tatar khanship", thus attracting the voters who don’t like
Karabakh Armenians for this or that reason. By the way this phenomenon
is not particular only to Armenia. In the same Azerbaijan for example,
"nakhijevan clan" is against Baku wing. In Ukraine the west is against
the east, etc. And Ter-Petrosyan managed to use this factor.
The third condition, which is less spoken about is the psychological
factor.
The ex-President masters the methods of psychological influence. In
the books about black magic you can read how these magicians managed
to create a corresponding psychological atmosphere by means of
poetry. When during one of his demonstrations Levon Ter-Petrosyan
recited Charents (Armenian great poet) many people were shocked. What
did Charents have to do with politics or with that layer of society?
There were many other orators there, who also master this power and
they managed to keep the people in the square, for many days.
All this led to the fact that 350 thousand electors voted for Levon
Ter-Petrosyan but only part of them did this based on ideological
generalities.
After all their objective was a coup d’état and they were well aware
that Levon Ter-Petrosyan doesn’t have any chances to win the elections
and from the beginning they have chosen that tactics, manipulation
of masses, accumulation of the disapproved around him and the use of
the psychological influence."
"After all what task did Levon Ter-Pterosyan set by spoiling the
elections? What was his purpose?"
"Levon Ter-Petrosyan was simply a tool in the hands of the west, to
realize their goals in the region. Pay attention that these events
coincided with the declaration of Kosovo’s independence. After all
we are facing the problem of the recognition of Karabakh independence
and the west that did its best to achieve the recognition of Kosovo’s
independence, continuously announces that the latter can’t be a
precedent for Karabakh.
Thus they are trying to put pressure on us, so that we will not
be able to raise this issue while the issue of the recognition of
the independence of Abkhasia, South Osia and Trans-Dnester is in
the process of discussion in Russia. Thus they needed someone to
create tension, to split the society and to make Armenian authorities
concentrate on internal issues. And Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the one
to take this role.
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