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    The `Issue of the Dead Body' Is Not Topical Anymore

    March 30 2013


    Raffi Hovhannisyan's decision to stop the hunger strike is good news.
    No normal man wants someone to deliberately harm himself and damage
    his health. The Nzhdehists, first of all, Galust Sahakyan, say: `We
    don't want any Armenian to suffer.' However, I, not being a national
    conservative, attribute my wish regarding health to all people on the
    planet Earth, regardless of their political and religious views, race
    and nationality. That is why, by the way, I am displeased when the
    decision of the government to allot money for Hayrikyan's treatment
    becomes a subject of heated discussion. Why to Hayrikyan, why from the
    treasury? These questions must be asked in the political domain.
    Perhaps that criticism is really proper, and one could have spent that
    money more reasonably. However, I try to abstract from these factors,
    and perceive the issue this way; someone, in this case the state,
    wishes to rescue one man's life. One ought not to talk so much about
    this; I, as a taxpayer, don't begrudge my money spent on this cause.
    The same thing applies to Raffi Hovhannisyan's hunger strike.
    Certainly, one can rub his hands and gloat; he failed, he was just
    pretending etc. However, I think that one cannot tease or provoke a
    person, as far as health is concerned; necessarily continue your
    self-destruction, otherwise we will mock you and consider as
    unprincipled. That malice cannot be justified by any political reason.
    Stopping the hunger strike has two other positive aspects; it will
    allow both the other political forces and experts - whom Raffi gave a
    piece of his mind yesterday - to focus not on the health condition or
    the diet of the Heritage Party leader, but on his steps. It is one
    thing when you start your report with a sentence `Today is
    such-and-such a day of Raffi Hovhannisyan's hunger strike.' It is
    another thing when you inform that the politician had said this and
    had demanded that. In the end, Raffi Hovhannisyan's decision to stop
    the hunger strike proves that his actions lack threatening,
    blackmailing the opponent, which, I must confess, I thought of this
    kind of struggle. It has become clear that the phrase `over my dead
    body' was figurative, and the readiness `to rest in some corner of
    Armenia' is just a tribute to the Diaspora Armenian phraseology. The
    struggle has become merely political, and all of us should wish good
    luck to Raffi Hovhannisyan in that. ARAM ABRAHAMYAN

    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/30/153286/

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