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AGHDAM IS OUR HOMELAND, HOW ABOUT YEREVAN?
Aghdam which was built in the place of the ancient Armenian city of
Akn was liberated 20 years ago on July 23. The military people will
explain the military and strategic importance of liberation better than
me, and it is unnecessary to interpret its moral and psychological
importance. Perhaps because the developments that took place over
the next 20 years would question whether it is necessary to speak
about the moral and psychological importance of victories in war,
in this case Aghdam is liberated.
After about 12 years from liberation the minister of defense of
Armenia who wanted to be the next president, Serzh Sargsyan was
going to announce that Aghdam is not our homeland. The minister of
defense stating this in a country which won the war would not be
a president and would not remain a minister. However, neither the
commander-in-chief on those days dismissed him, nor the society
demanded the resignation of this minister of defense.
The minister retorted in a small company - prove that Aghdam is
Armenian.
They also say that archeologists who dug and discovered Tigranakert
in Aghdam proved to Serzh Sargsyan visiting Tigranakert as president
that Aghdam is our homeland, and these are not pathetic words but
scientific artifacts.
The sense of homeland is something special and is not based on
scientific proof, administrative borders or legal categories. The
border of homeland runs across each and every person, and fortunately
the border of the homeland liberated in the war in Artsakh runs across
thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Armenians.
Simply some of them have established those borders in them, while
others not yet because the years following the victory have blurred
the sense of preliminary homeland, the homeland which started from
the ABC book of Soviet school.
Since independence the ruling "elites" did everything possible and
impossible to defile the sense of homeland in people. It should be
noted that it was mostly a success. Fortunately, however, it never
succeeded fully or at least to a degree when the homeland is hopeless
against criminal oligarchic vandalism.
On these days the anniversary of liberation of Aghdam, part of the
homeland, overlaps with one of the havens of the fight for liberation
of the entire homeland. Definition of its manifestations is fight
against increase of fare but deep inside it is the fight of free
citizens for the homeland. This is the fight of the citizens who kept
the sense of homeland alive and reinforced it with the awareness
of state. They have already won a victory in the past years - they
stopped the parade for defamation of the sense of homeland and launched
their own.
Notably, one of the havens of this big process overlaps with the
anniversary of one of the important victories of war in Artsakh. The
victories in Artsakh were achieved as soon as it was clear that the
Armenians must achieve their right to one's own destiny, life, security
and development for nobody will do it for them. Then there were
victories, important external support because they support those who
are ready and have will to fight for their own rights and existence.
>From this point of view, the link between victories in Artsakh and the
ongoing civic fight is not only symbolic or cognitive but absolutely
practical because the international destiny of victories of Artsakh
depend directly on the quality that Armenia must have as a state.
Hakob Badalyan 17:25 23/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30529
Aghdam which was built in the place of the ancient Armenian city of
Akn was liberated 20 years ago on July 23. The military people will
explain the military and strategic importance of liberation better than
me, and it is unnecessary to interpret its moral and psychological
importance. Perhaps because the developments that took place over
the next 20 years would question whether it is necessary to speak
about the moral and psychological importance of victories in war,
in this case Aghdam is liberated.
After about 12 years from liberation the minister of defense of
Armenia who wanted to be the next president, Serzh Sargsyan was
going to announce that Aghdam is not our homeland. The minister of
defense stating this in a country which won the war would not be
a president and would not remain a minister. However, neither the
commander-in-chief on those days dismissed him, nor the society
demanded the resignation of this minister of defense.
The minister retorted in a small company - prove that Aghdam is
Armenian.
They also say that archeologists who dug and discovered Tigranakert
in Aghdam proved to Serzh Sargsyan visiting Tigranakert as president
that Aghdam is our homeland, and these are not pathetic words but
scientific artifacts.
The sense of homeland is something special and is not based on
scientific proof, administrative borders or legal categories. The
border of homeland runs across each and every person, and fortunately
the border of the homeland liberated in the war in Artsakh runs across
thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Armenians.
Simply some of them have established those borders in them, while
others not yet because the years following the victory have blurred
the sense of preliminary homeland, the homeland which started from
the ABC book of Soviet school.
Since independence the ruling "elites" did everything possible and
impossible to defile the sense of homeland in people. It should be
noted that it was mostly a success. Fortunately, however, it never
succeeded fully or at least to a degree when the homeland is hopeless
against criminal oligarchic vandalism.
On these days the anniversary of liberation of Aghdam, part of the
homeland, overlaps with one of the havens of the fight for liberation
of the entire homeland. Definition of its manifestations is fight
against increase of fare but deep inside it is the fight of free
citizens for the homeland. This is the fight of the citizens who kept
the sense of homeland alive and reinforced it with the awareness
of state. They have already won a victory in the past years - they
stopped the parade for defamation of the sense of homeland and launched
their own.
Notably, one of the havens of this big process overlaps with the
anniversary of one of the important victories of war in Artsakh. The
victories in Artsakh were achieved as soon as it was clear that the
Armenians must achieve their right to one's own destiny, life, security
and development for nobody will do it for them. Then there were
victories, important external support because they support those who
are ready and have will to fight for their own rights and existence.
>From this point of view, the link between victories in Artsakh and the
ongoing civic fight is not only symbolic or cognitive but absolutely
practical because the international destiny of victories of Artsakh
depend directly on the quality that Armenia must have as a state.
Hakob Badalyan 17:25 23/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30529