HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARABAKH!
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12:39:17 – 02/09/2009
September 2 is the Day of Independence of Karabakh. It is a holiday
in Karabakh. In Armenia no holiday moods are felt, though a number
of political figures and forces remember about the Independence
Day of Karabakh but among the public there is no holiday mood,
and the birthday of the second Armenian state is important and
worth remembering only for few people. Maybe this is the reason
why the greater part of the Armenian leadership leaves for Karabakh
on September 2 to celebrate the independence. Every year, on that
day or the day before, the Yerevan-Karabakh highway is packed with
expensive cars and motorcades speeding to Karabakh. But they do not
stay in Karabakh long, for only several days. They come back not
because they have to return to work but right the contrary, because
they have nothing to do there.
If independent Karabakh were a place to stay, the former president
of Karabakh Arkadi Ghukasyan, after leaving office, would spend his
vacation there and not abroad. Or if independent Karabakh were a place
to stay, the president of independent Karabakh Bako Sahakyan would rest
in his country instead of going to Europe for a vacation. Let alone
that if those people perceived the independence of their country they
would have a correspondent role in the Karabakh conflict as leaders of
an independent country. But Karabakh is needed only for going there and
celebrating. Karabakh is needed for people from Armenia to go there and
exclaim about its independence as a supreme value and then return to
Armenia and dwell on a settlement of the conflict based on compromise.
Happy Birthday, Karabakh! Not always do you meet those whom you need
to meet. But the important thing is that there are people whom you
need. They are not seen because they work for you even on holidays,
they keep and excavate their homeland for others to speak in the
present and not in the future or the past tense, as it has usually
happened.