THEATRICAL GYUMRY – 2008
Kima Yeghiazaryan
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 01, 2008
Armenia
LTP’s Summer Tour
After the earthquake of 1988 LTP made his third "historical" visit
to Gyumry last Saturday.
If you remember his first visit to Gyumry was in 1990, which was aimed
at sending back the constructors who came from different countries
to restore the ruined city.
His second visit was this winter, in the framework of the pre-election
campaign.
And the third visit was last Saturday. As a well-informed person,
not fearing Turkish and Azerbaijani spies, he yet again breached the
regime of his "house arrest" and appeared in the Theatrical Square
in Gyumry in June 28.
There are two reasons for organizing a political tour in Gyumry.
First: the center of the movement headed by LTP wanted to show by
their visit that they are not indifferent towards the revolutionaries
in Gyumry.
And in the honor of the "political prisoners" originating from
Gyumry, Makeyan, Ashot Zakaryan, and Saghatelyans, he decided to
hold a demonstration. By the way the radicals have decided to hold
demonstrations in the native cities of all the other political
prisoners.
The revolutionaries can’t put up with the idea that four months after
the elections the provinces are not as enthusiastic as they used to be
and the inhabitants, sick and tired of the post-election developments
have become extremely passive and live their every day life.
What they need is to burn the fire of the demonstrations with the
thunderous speeches and to convince everyone that the struggle is
still on and they need the support of Gyumry people to have victory,
because the latter didn’t participate in June 20 demonstration near
Matenadaran. Of course the activists of the movement will state that
the reason was the closed roads, but in case of a big desire they
could have reached Yerevan.
What did LTP speak about in Gyumry’s Theatrical Square, for the
participants of the meeting that mostly came with him from Yerevan?
He was telling different kind of jokes, speaking about "the national
disasters" he pointed out the emigration problem and the people’s
life that is going from bad to worse.
Because he had mentioned during the pre-election campaign that in case
of being elected he would stay in office for 2-3 years, in Gyumry he
revealed the names of those whom he was going to shift power.
"I was planning to shift power to more energetic and young political
figures such as Stepan Demirchyan, Aram Sargsyan, Raffi Hovhannisyan,
Alexander Arzumanyan, Davit Shahnazaryan."
Can you imagine what danger we averted by not electing LTP? From the
before mentioned names, except Demirchyan all of them have already
failed in this or that post.
It was only one week before that during the Meeting near Matenadaran
in June 20 LTP blamed Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan for selling the
country’s gold by a very cheap price. But in Gyumry he announced that:
"there are some honest people in the government, such as Tigran
Sargsyan, Edward Nalbandyan and a couple of Ministers but I don’t
think these people can make practical steps to change this system."
What a kind attitude towards the Prime Minister and some
Ministers. What is really noteworthy is that during the pre-election
phase LTP and his companions-in-arm were trying to persuade us that
the government in power is going to dissolve but today they are trying
to touch the hearts of some high-ranking officials thus hoping to
split the ruling power.