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  • Mystery Behind Harsnaqar Plot: Cry Of The Soul Or Fake Alarm

    MYSTERY BEHIND HARSNAQAR PLOT: CRY OF THE SOUL OR FAKE ALARM

    tert.am
    02.07.12

    In case the Defense Ministry serviceman, who wanted to blow up
    the Harsnaqar restaurant, turns out to have been driven by genuine
    emotions, his move will be considered a protest against the reality,
    according Harnush Hakobyan, an ethnographer.

    "I mean the reality in which any one of us can be beaten to death
    in case of doing something - walking down the stairs with the left
    instead of the right foot, for instance - not pleasing [the owner of
    Harsnaqar] Ruben Hayrapetyan," she told Tert.am.

    Security guards at the Harsnaqar restaurant severely beat three
    military doctors on their premises on June 17. One of them, Major
    Vahe Avetyan, who was the most seriously affected, died in hospital
    on Friday, after remaining unconscious for about a fortnight. The
    beatings had caused serious damages to his brains, creating conditions
    incompatible with life.

    Avetyan's death sparked strong protests in the society, particularly
    in the social networking site Facebook, where users actively condemned
    the incident, demanding the strictest punishment for the perpetrators.

    A 39-year old lieutenant-colonel of the Armenian Army, Vardan
    Samvelyan, entered Harsnaqar at about 2:15 am on Sunday, threatening
    to blow up the complex. Only after three-hour talks with a police
    special task force, was he rendered harmless and taken to the police
    department of Yerevan's Nork-Marash district.

    Commenting on the servicemen's attempted bomb attack, Kharatyan said
    she doesn't think it to be a Lynch trial. She is more inclined to
    consider the incident a cry of the soul, aimed to call the public
    attention to the ciolent act.

    The founder of Sardarapat initiative, Zhirayr Sefilyan, says it is
    hard to say at the moment what pushed the high-ranking servicemen to
    the act.

    "Both motives are possible. [He] might have done that in the heat of
    passion; but that might have as well been an artificial act," he said.

    Speaking to Tert.am, an activist of Sardarapat, film director Tigran
    Khzmalyan said the servicemen's motives are not the first thing to
    be addressed.

    "It would be very wrong for us, as a society, to restrict the entire
    problem to Harsnaqar. It would mean we fail to find the true problem
    and focus only on fake targets," he noted.

    The activist proposed instead turning Harsnaqar into a youth palace.

    "It is necessary likewise to return the brothels and saunas to the
    society - the youth, the children and the elderly," he said.

    Heritage party member Stepan Safaryan has shared his thoughts on
    Facebook.

    "[Is this] real revenge? A chance to strengthen the security guarantees
    of Harsnaqar, its owner, especially after the recent days' public
    rage and demonstration against the slaughterhouse; a kind of the
    public revolt or a way of imparting a sense of comfort or ...? The
    story looks strange to me ..." said the former parliament member in
    his public profile.

    Levon Barseghyan, the founder of the Gyumri-based journalists' club
    Asparez, considers the attempted explosion an emotion-driven step.

    "An officer of that rank would have blown up the [the complex] if
    he had wanted to, and no one would have known anything," he said,
    characterizing the action as that of a man who was in a state of
    affection at the time of taking the step.

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