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POLITICAL ACTIVIST ON TRIAL URGES YEREVAN MAYOR NOT TO BETRAY HIS FATHER
07.16.2014 16:55 epress.am
At the start of today's trial in the case against political activist
Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, Harutyunyan urged Yerevan Mayor
Taron Margaryan (pictured) not to install the statue of Soviet leader
Anastas Mikoyan in the Armenian capital.
According to Harutyunyan, if the municipality wants to install
monuments of Bolsheviks, it can install monuments to Kamo (Semeno
Arshakovitch Ter-Petrossian), Sarkis Kasyan, and Aghasi Khanjyan,
for example.
Mikoyan, unlike the others, Harutyunyan said, is a traitor not only
to the state, but also to his family and father.
"At least you, whose father was Andranik Margaryan, dear Taron, you
should know well what a sordid structure the KGB is. The KGB corrupts
a man until the end, forces him to betray not only his country, but
also his father. Don't become a son who betrays his own father. If
you're forced because of your position, at least install Kamo's statue,
not Mikoyan's," he said.
Taron Margaryan's father, Andranik Margaryan, during the Soviet
years was a member of the underground National Unity Party, which
campaigned for Armenia's succession from the Soviet Union. In 1974,
he was arrested and sentenced to two years in Soviet labor camps for
fighting against the Soviet regime.
Recently, there has been much discussion on social networking sites
and in local media concerning the municipality's decision to erect a
monument to Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan. Many public andcultural
figures, academics, and civil society activists are against the
decision.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/07/16/political-activist-on-trial-urges-yerevan-mayor-not-to-betray-his-father.html
07.16.2014 16:55 epress.am
At the start of today's trial in the case against political activist
Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, Harutyunyan urged Yerevan Mayor
Taron Margaryan (pictured) not to install the statue of Soviet leader
Anastas Mikoyan in the Armenian capital.
According to Harutyunyan, if the municipality wants to install
monuments of Bolsheviks, it can install monuments to Kamo (Semeno
Arshakovitch Ter-Petrossian), Sarkis Kasyan, and Aghasi Khanjyan,
for example.
Mikoyan, unlike the others, Harutyunyan said, is a traitor not only
to the state, but also to his family and father.
"At least you, whose father was Andranik Margaryan, dear Taron, you
should know well what a sordid structure the KGB is. The KGB corrupts
a man until the end, forces him to betray not only his country, but
also his father. Don't become a son who betrays his own father. If
you're forced because of your position, at least install Kamo's statue,
not Mikoyan's," he said.
Taron Margaryan's father, Andranik Margaryan, during the Soviet
years was a member of the underground National Unity Party, which
campaigned for Armenia's succession from the Soviet Union. In 1974,
he was arrested and sentenced to two years in Soviet labor camps for
fighting against the Soviet regime.
Recently, there has been much discussion on social networking sites
and in local media concerning the municipality's decision to erect a
monument to Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan. Many public andcultural
figures, academics, and civil society activists are against the
decision.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/07/16/political-activist-on-trial-urges-yerevan-mayor-not-to-betray-his-father.html