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    TRACES- FROM ARMENIA TO AFRICA
    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Lragir.am
    30/04/10

    Recently, a picture appeared in internet showing Robert Kocharyan
    and his son Sedrak Kocharyan hunting in Africa and taking pictures
    with the animals, which probably, they killed. Photos were posted on
    the website of an African organization, which is supposed to offer
    such services. The photos were not news, because Robert Kocharyan
    had already stated on an occasion about his African hunting. But as
    Russians say, it is better to see once than to hear hundred times.

    Looking at Kocharyan photographed with killed animals, his preference
    is seen under a completely different light rather than a usual human
    preference particular to millions of people who hunt small and big
    animals.

    I know people who like hunting though they can keep Charents poems
    in their pocket and have the Bible in their office. They, of course,
    do not kill lions or huge antelopes, but only birds, but the size of
    the "criminal" is not a circumstance for a severe or a kind punishment.

    Hunting is hunting regardless the hunted animal. Consequently,
    to say that it is sacrilege that Robert Kocharyan hunts African
    animals would be wrong. To greater extent, this is not hunting but
    just killing because the hunter kills a helpless animal from a car
    with an optic weapon.

    But in this case the problem is not the way of hunting, though much
    depends on it. On photos we see not only Robert Kocharyan. There are
    other people too. But we can perhaps say surely that there is not
    former president of a country on them. This is the whole problem. When
    in Africa, Kocharyan leaves killed animals after him, the question
    occurs: what he left in Armenia, as a result of his tenure. "Killed
    people", would probably say thousands of Armenian citizens remembering
    March 1 events. And most likely, they will be quite right. Moreover,
    the question how big is Robert Kocharyan's direct participation in
    killing of those people is not important.

    It is a fact that in the end of his tenure, 10 citizens of Armenia
    have been killed. Even presuming that those people were robbing shops,
    burning cars, presuming that the official version is right (may the
    relatives of March 1 victims forgive me for this "presumption"),
    nevertheless, it is out of any logic that law enforcers kill those
    who rob or who burn cars. If it was so, in France, Greece and Great
    Britain, the government had to have their streets filled with corpses
    because in these countries, during such events, the protesters caused
    double and even more damage to the country. While, in none of these
    countries any protester has ever been killed.

    After the murders of 10 Armenian citizens, it is anti-Christian
    to dwell on killing of animals, on hunting and to fit it into
    religious-moral or ethic categories. But the question what Robert
    Kocharyan left in Armenia as a result of his tenure is still pending.

    Many would say that he left a developing economy with double-figured
    economic increase etc. Indeed, to say that such a thing did not happen
    is the same as to say that March 1 did not happen.

    What else Robert Kocharyan left. Totally criminalized governmental
    system, institutionalization of electoral breaches, monopolized
    economic system, concentration of country's material and financial
    resources in the hands of a few families, connection of business and
    power, total violation of citizens' interests, crystallization of
    judicial system under the executive power, establishment of a class
    of privileged based on relationships, governmental position and money.

    Let us compare all this with a few killed animals. Of course, it is
    pity to kill animals in any case, but first of all, those who organize
    these hunting pleasures are to be called to responsibility. As to the
    participants, they need to be required to explain at what expense
    they use such, mildly speaking, non-cheap pleasures, in this case
    Kocharyans' family is to be asked.

    As to their heart, soul and conscience condition, given the heavy
    "trace", which is much heavier in comparison with the African one,
    that Robert Kocharyan left in Armenia, it is a personal question,
    and there is no sense neither right to go into details of it.
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