VAZGEN SARGSYAN: "WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO LINGER"

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[03:05 pm] 04 March, 2009

"Chaos reigns in the country. Ð~P lamebrain can take an automatic
machine and play serious jokes on a whole nation. How can we defend
each other with a feeling of suspect and intolerance? We have got
tired of the talks over unity; we have got tired of citing Nzhdeh,
but all in vain… We have no right to linger. Do hurry up lest dark
forces make us enemies. Do hurry up as long as people trust us,"
Sparapet (Commander) Vazgen Sargsyan said in the 90s.

Today his words sound oracular, especially after the clashes of last
March. It didn’t even occur to the great Sparapet that one day Armenian
may open fire at each other in the heart of Yerevan and an Armenian
mother will mourn because of the pain caused by her compatriot.

Vazgen Sargsyan would be 50 years old on March 5. He is no longer
alive as the fortune was unfair to him: he was killed by an Armenian.

Vazgen Sargsyan felt that the public opinion about his personality
was not in line with his nature. He feared that he wouldn’t be able
to show his true colours. "People do not know me properly. Only my
friends and acquaintances know me. Others think I am a gloomy and angry
person with a beard and sweat. People don’t know me, they fear me. They
compare me with a bear; therefore they are afraid of me. Sometimes I
also fear lest I shouldn’t be able to speak to them and make myself
comprehensible. I am not God, I am a soldier, I am an Armenian…"