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    Who Politicizes?

    March 1 2013


    The government often makes an appeal on this or that occasion, `Do not
    politicize!' If we disregard the peculiarities of our reality, that
    appeal, as such, is right. For example, when the neighborhood bully
    breaks into the electoral district and stuffs the ballot box, it
    should be resisted by the police, then the prosecutor's office, in the
    end, the court. If these three state bodies act like that, there will
    be no need for politicizing the issue of electoral fraud. So if the
    police, the prosecutor's office, and the court perform their duties,
    it will become an ordinary legal procedure, which will not attract the
    attention of either society or political forces, and the crimes that
    are regularly punished tend to decrease. However, since those crimes
    have been used for political purposes over the past 18 years, and that
    is the very reason why they remain unpunished, we are compelled to
    politicize them; it is just logical to do so. The basic condition for
    not politicizing any issue is independent court. At the time when one
    of the famous politicians was prosecuted, the judge publicly and
    honestly admitted: `Do you think I make judgments by myself? I go to
    the Presidential Palace and have my decisions approved there.' That is
    the very problem; people must be able to file every complaint,
    including those regarding elections, being sure that the court will
    act `by itself' without approval from the Presidential Palace.
    However, since we are sure that, for example, condemning Tigran
    Arakelyan to 6 years in prison was also `approved,' we cannot help but
    `politicize the issue.' The same thing applies to the slaughter of
    March 1. How one can avoid politicizing it! If, say, in the summer of
    2008, those who had committed those murders and those who had arranged
    them had stood trial, it would have been possible to assert that the
    law enforcers had illegally used firearms during the peaceful
    opposition rally, for which they were punished. However, since no one
    has been punished in the past 5 years; on the contrary, a few dozen
    opposition leaders and activists have stood trial, one can draw a
    conclusion from it that our very law enforcement system is guided by
    political motives. Therefore, dear law enforcers, do not politicize
    the March 1 case and solve it! ARAM ABRAHAMYAN

    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/01/152658/

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    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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