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A RECKLESS SCHEME
LILIT POGHOSYAN
"Hayots Ashkharh"Armenian Daily
10 Nov 07
Director of `Goy' theater Armen Mazmanyan expresses his viewpoints
regarding Armenian Pan National Movement and Levon Ter-Petrosyan's
second advent.
`It is a reckless scheme. Maybe we could understand Levon
Ter-Petrosyan had he confessed his guilt ` coal, black oil, energetic
crises, hunger, demolished economy, ruined financial system,
moral-ethical fall, emigration, and humiliation of their own nation¦
All this has occurred during his years of power. At that time I
didn't criticize Levon Ter-Petrosyan, simply because I respect the
Presidential institute. The same is at present ` as the citizen of
Armenia I respect that phenomenon. I have criticized the system, I have
criticized the structure, and today I have to say that Levon
Ter-Petrosyan was the one who headed all this.
Moreover, we have lived under the rule of a President who has
publicly declared that national ideology is a false category. And this
has been said by the President. This was the `program' of a president
that considered himself liberal. And even if Levon Ter-Petrosyan was an
ideal President, as an Armenian, as a human being, I deny, I can't
accept him.
Secondly ` he said we must cede the small to win the big. That is to
say for the first time after 1000 years we have shed blood for our
lands and now we must cede these lands for unknown reasons. This means
we shouldn't create problems with the Turks, that we don't need all the
intellectual spheres, that we should forget about industry, that we
should make this country a banana state, etc. I'm not using foul
language; I simply want to refresh people's memory.
Before resigning, in 1998, he announced that the party of peace was
leaving and the party of war was coming. But it turned out to be a lie.
On the contrary, the power of peace came, the power of economic
progress, because whatever they say, people can see those streets and
the lights in the streets.
And after all people don't go to street-protests. See what is
happening in Georgia, because they have lots of hungry people. But in
our reality people are more or less well off. It s another thing who is
fair who is unfair.'
` But the ex-President has appeared to `demand an answer from the
administration of chieftains?'
`That is why I'm saying that it is a reckless scheme. What the
pro-opposition powers including Levon Ter-Petrosyan insist on is -
`They must go, we must come.' For me, as a citizen, it doesn't sound
swaying. This can't be a national political program, `give us power,
and everything will be ok.' Especially because they have already proved
that life is terrible with them, the conversation is about Levon and
Armenian Pan National Movement.
As for Levon Ter-Petrosyan's `return' I think it is not considered
by this fact. Most probably he doesn't have any other chance, maybe
they don't even ask him. Maybe I'm wrong, but to appear after 9 years
silence, in case when the life is more or less stable, the country's
situation is more promising, and to renounce all this, is nothing more
than godlessness.
This is said by someone who, being a director of a theater, by now
doesn't have a state status. Which means I must have been the most
offended person. But I'm trying to stand above this offense and to
understand that these people are simply playing and by the way playing
unsuccessfully and as a prognosis I must say that their game is
useless.
LILIT POGHOSYAN
"Hayots Ashkharh"Armenian Daily
10 Nov 07
Director of `Goy' theater Armen Mazmanyan expresses his viewpoints
regarding Armenian Pan National Movement and Levon Ter-Petrosyan's
second advent.
`It is a reckless scheme. Maybe we could understand Levon
Ter-Petrosyan had he confessed his guilt ` coal, black oil, energetic
crises, hunger, demolished economy, ruined financial system,
moral-ethical fall, emigration, and humiliation of their own nation¦
All this has occurred during his years of power. At that time I
didn't criticize Levon Ter-Petrosyan, simply because I respect the
Presidential institute. The same is at present ` as the citizen of
Armenia I respect that phenomenon. I have criticized the system, I have
criticized the structure, and today I have to say that Levon
Ter-Petrosyan was the one who headed all this.
Moreover, we have lived under the rule of a President who has
publicly declared that national ideology is a false category. And this
has been said by the President. This was the `program' of a president
that considered himself liberal. And even if Levon Ter-Petrosyan was an
ideal President, as an Armenian, as a human being, I deny, I can't
accept him.
Secondly ` he said we must cede the small to win the big. That is to
say for the first time after 1000 years we have shed blood for our
lands and now we must cede these lands for unknown reasons. This means
we shouldn't create problems with the Turks, that we don't need all the
intellectual spheres, that we should forget about industry, that we
should make this country a banana state, etc. I'm not using foul
language; I simply want to refresh people's memory.
Before resigning, in 1998, he announced that the party of peace was
leaving and the party of war was coming. But it turned out to be a lie.
On the contrary, the power of peace came, the power of economic
progress, because whatever they say, people can see those streets and
the lights in the streets.
And after all people don't go to street-protests. See what is
happening in Georgia, because they have lots of hungry people. But in
our reality people are more or less well off. It s another thing who is
fair who is unfair.'
` But the ex-President has appeared to `demand an answer from the
administration of chieftains?'
`That is why I'm saying that it is a reckless scheme. What the
pro-opposition powers including Levon Ter-Petrosyan insist on is -
`They must go, we must come.' For me, as a citizen, it doesn't sound
swaying. This can't be a national political program, `give us power,
and everything will be ok.' Especially because they have already proved
that life is terrible with them, the conversation is about Levon and
Armenian Pan National Movement.
As for Levon Ter-Petrosyan's `return' I think it is not considered
by this fact. Most probably he doesn't have any other chance, maybe
they don't even ask him. Maybe I'm wrong, but to appear after 9 years
silence, in case when the life is more or less stable, the country's
situation is more promising, and to renounce all this, is nothing more
than godlessness.
This is said by someone who, being a director of a theater, by now
doesn't have a state status. Which means I must have been the most
offended person. But I'm trying to stand above this offense and to
understand that these people are simply playing and by the way playing
unsuccessfully and as a prognosis I must say that their game is
useless.