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NUNE AND THE VOTE
Yeghisheh Metsarents
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23516.html
11:28:32 - 27/09/2011
The TV report in the evening of September 26 told about a concert
organized by some foreign organization of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun
somewhere, at which Nune Yesayan performed. Then Nune Yesayan was
interviewed who said she is ready to be beside the army always.
It seems that all the ARF-D organizations should know what Nune Yesayan
had stated in an interview on the ten citizens of Armenia killed on
March 1. "They died, it was their fault that they died. Were they not
there, they would not die," Nune Yesayan had stated in an interview
following the clampdown on peaceful demonstrators.
A singer who makes such a pronouncement should never ever get any
invitation, besides the government invitations, of course. Even
the so-called national events should be closed for Nune Yesayan,
especially if they are organized by the organizations of the ARF-D
which is considered to be opposition.
After all, should this Diasporan audience get killed in Yerevan,
such as while struggling for the votes of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun,
Nune Yesayan will probably say, "They were killed, it was their fault
that they were killed. Were they not there, they would not get killed."
Perhaps Nune Yesayan speaks similarly about the killed or "suicide"
soldiers at peacetime, announcing that she is ready to be beside the
army always. Surprisingly, the organizers of the military parade of
September 21 did not run Nune Yesayan across the square together with
her star colleagues who express their fiery delight with the army
from time to time, in reality being happy that they have demand in
the government also for the sake of the army.
How can Armenia and the Diaspora clap to a singer who can speak with
such cynical indifference about the innocent people killed in the
center of Yerevan, even if the so-called political views of Nune
Yesayan and their political views differ?
When will a social consensus be established between Armenia and the
Diaspora on the key genuine values, such as the citizen, the life and
dignity of the citizen? When will a uniform system of values be adopted
to measure everyone who will speak so cynically about the tragedy
of the citizen of Armenia? And to have everyone understand that a
citizen is a value and not a political value, and any encroachment
upon this value, written or oral, will be absolutely condemned,
both in Armenia and the Diaspora.
Meanwhile, the goal of the political organizations, whether national
or other, should set to proselytize the value of citizen rather than
the performance of cynical stars. Otherwise, it is at least strange
when the ARF Dashnaktsutyun in Armenia launches the movement "Vote
is Power", while some of its organizations abroad are guided by the
logic that "Nune is Power", meanwhile Nune and vote are different
categories, to put it mildly.
From: Baghdasarian
Yeghisheh Metsarents
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23516.html
11:28:32 - 27/09/2011
The TV report in the evening of September 26 told about a concert
organized by some foreign organization of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun
somewhere, at which Nune Yesayan performed. Then Nune Yesayan was
interviewed who said she is ready to be beside the army always.
It seems that all the ARF-D organizations should know what Nune Yesayan
had stated in an interview on the ten citizens of Armenia killed on
March 1. "They died, it was their fault that they died. Were they not
there, they would not die," Nune Yesayan had stated in an interview
following the clampdown on peaceful demonstrators.
A singer who makes such a pronouncement should never ever get any
invitation, besides the government invitations, of course. Even
the so-called national events should be closed for Nune Yesayan,
especially if they are organized by the organizations of the ARF-D
which is considered to be opposition.
After all, should this Diasporan audience get killed in Yerevan,
such as while struggling for the votes of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun,
Nune Yesayan will probably say, "They were killed, it was their fault
that they were killed. Were they not there, they would not get killed."
Perhaps Nune Yesayan speaks similarly about the killed or "suicide"
soldiers at peacetime, announcing that she is ready to be beside the
army always. Surprisingly, the organizers of the military parade of
September 21 did not run Nune Yesayan across the square together with
her star colleagues who express their fiery delight with the army
from time to time, in reality being happy that they have demand in
the government also for the sake of the army.
How can Armenia and the Diaspora clap to a singer who can speak with
such cynical indifference about the innocent people killed in the
center of Yerevan, even if the so-called political views of Nune
Yesayan and their political views differ?
When will a social consensus be established between Armenia and the
Diaspora on the key genuine values, such as the citizen, the life and
dignity of the citizen? When will a uniform system of values be adopted
to measure everyone who will speak so cynically about the tragedy
of the citizen of Armenia? And to have everyone understand that a
citizen is a value and not a political value, and any encroachment
upon this value, written or oral, will be absolutely condemned,
both in Armenia and the Diaspora.
Meanwhile, the goal of the political organizations, whether national
or other, should set to proselytize the value of citizen rather than
the performance of cynical stars. Otherwise, it is at least strange
when the ARF Dashnaktsutyun in Armenia launches the movement "Vote
is Power", while some of its organizations abroad are guided by the
logic that "Nune is Power", meanwhile Nune and vote are different
categories, to put it mildly.
From: Baghdasarian