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    Greed, inertia, or `excessive burying'? Why isn't the dictators'
    punishment becoming a lesson for others?

    March 1 2014

    Former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych's pictures with golden
    walls palaces flooded the entire media. The topic about Yanukovych's
    greed and his punishment has become topical today. It seems that such
    a negative public reaction and bringing Yanukovich to responsibility
    can become a lesson for other leaders, whose obsession is the
    appropriation of public funds. Anyway, the experience and history show
    that dictators' punishment and their abandoned palaces are not
    becoming lessons for other leaders. The evidence of what was said is
    the life imprisonment of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,
    what happened with the Romanian dictator CeauČ'escu, and so on. What is
    this? A greed, or this phenomenon has a different name? Aravot.am
    talked with ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan regarding these issues. She
    noted, `In all of these examples, specific individuals and their power
    and management circles have not passed preparation in use of power. I
    think under bringing to responsibility they have always found
    leverages to evade from responsibilities and evade the law. In these
    cases, the court and the prosecutor's office are supporting, or there
    are always guarantees, for example, Russia in this case, and so on.'
    The ethnographer believes that the inertia coming from Soviet morality
    and the Soviet times plays a serious role in this matter. Ms.
    Kharatyan, in particular, said, `We are all from the same moral plane,
    where the appropriation of state property has not been a theft; there
    was an opportunity for additional earnings. The Soviet trial court was
    judging, the morality was rejecting. This morality has come until now
    and the state property has become a perception of individual's
    ownership exercising power.' Our observation that this perception is
    still dominant in Armenia, Ms. Kharatyan responded as follows, `I
    think that now a more rational judgment prevails among the civil
    society activists. People see that this kind of concentration of power
    in the hands of individuals, and the infamous appropriation of all
    resources through personalities leads to a catastrophic situation.'
    Ms. Kharatyan does not know under which mechanisms the control of
    using levers of internal power there can be mutual control and
    balanced situation. Alternatively, according to Hranush Kharatyan,
    `will go to the square as Shant did and would say, `people, let's
    usurp the power `. To our final question of whether what happened to
    Yanukovych will at least somehow make the leaders of Armenia sober up,
    Ms. Kharatyan responded, `I do not believe, I very much doubt. Our
    people are so much buried in all of these things that they can not
    just come out of the daily swamp. They have so much mutual
    responsibilities to each other and for each other. What? Can the
    solution be exercising normal tax mechanisms? But, how? In the event
    when they have taken money from these people, and be elected, and now
    they say give me money, they will not give it.'


    Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/03/01/164035/


    From: Baghdasarian
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