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Armenian authorities' true demeanor toward the diaspora - newspaper
http://news.am/eng/news/117295.html
August 16, 2012 | 07:05
YEREVAN. - `Our correspondent, who, together with [Armenia's Diaspora
Minister] Hranush Hakobyan, visited Hankavan [city's] Hasmik and
Tsaghkadzor [city's] sport complex, was shocked by the contrast eye
witnessed in these two places,' Hraparak daily writes and continues:
`In the first, there were Syrian-Armenian children, [who] survived the
war [in Syria] and returned to the Motherland. In the second, [there
were] the well-known [young] `Falcons,' [who are] pampered by the
authorities, [and are] always in elite camps.
It would seem the state should first have cared for the
Diaspora-Armenian children, many of whom are in Armenia for the first
time. And this is a good opportunity for the Motherland to leave a
good impression and be very hospitable before their eyes.
Yet the object of our state's special care is not them, but rather the
elite `birds,' who render very important services during elections.
They need to live under special conditions, in expensive recreation
homes, at the very least.
That's all right that the children who arrived from the diaspora will
be placed in camps that are virtually non-renovated since [the] Soviet
[era].
In reality, this is a demeanor toward the [Armenian] diaspora, whom
our state sees as a milking cow and remembers when the time comes for
the all-Armenian begging. And the [Diaspora Ministry's] `Come Home'
Program] is nothing but an action thought up by Ms. Hranush and
secures her employment.'
http://news.am/eng/news/117295.html
August 16, 2012 | 07:05
YEREVAN. - `Our correspondent, who, together with [Armenia's Diaspora
Minister] Hranush Hakobyan, visited Hankavan [city's] Hasmik and
Tsaghkadzor [city's] sport complex, was shocked by the contrast eye
witnessed in these two places,' Hraparak daily writes and continues:
`In the first, there were Syrian-Armenian children, [who] survived the
war [in Syria] and returned to the Motherland. In the second, [there
were] the well-known [young] `Falcons,' [who are] pampered by the
authorities, [and are] always in elite camps.
It would seem the state should first have cared for the
Diaspora-Armenian children, many of whom are in Armenia for the first
time. And this is a good opportunity for the Motherland to leave a
good impression and be very hospitable before their eyes.
Yet the object of our state's special care is not them, but rather the
elite `birds,' who render very important services during elections.
They need to live under special conditions, in expensive recreation
homes, at the very least.
That's all right that the children who arrived from the diaspora will
be placed in camps that are virtually non-renovated since [the] Soviet
[era].
In reality, this is a demeanor toward the [Armenian] diaspora, whom
our state sees as a milking cow and remembers when the time comes for
the all-Armenian begging. And the [Diaspora Ministry's] `Come Home'
Program] is nothing but an action thought up by Ms. Hranush and
secures her employment.'