“Honorable Zhirayr, we apply to you since we know that you appreciate and attach value to the opinion and plea of intellectuals. Today your friends, who are also our compatriots, have taken an extreme step by initiating and armed assault and taking hostages.”
Funeral of Artur Vanoyan, the Armenian police colonel, killed in the recent clashes at a seized police station in Yerevan, was held today in Abovyan (Kotayk region), in which Vova Gasparyan, Police Chief, took part as well.
That seems like a perfect metaphor for the Avakians: He is one of the greatest record producers in the history of jazz, while she was a concert violinist and a leading figure in the world of contemporary classical music. A locomotive and a car are inherently different kinds of vehicles, but they both can transport you from one place to another and, ultimately, get you to where you’re going.
“Maybe one should at least edify to be able to judge what’s going on inside. From the viewpoint of social assessments, I think, day by day the crack of the society is expanding, which is inadmissible. We start to treat one another with hostility. The idea, which doesn’t correspond to ours is perceived as betrayal or disposition of an enemy—this is very dangerous. Intolerance is not principality, it’s a lack of brains, when you don’t think of implications,” the intellectual said.
“I guess environmental catastrophic warnings are not enough to temper our animalistic idiocracy. One thing is clear-civilization in its current form has run its course. We desperately need to figure out how to handle the human disease of violence toward one another. In the U.S. we need to see a culture of change from violent unilateral action to serving justice starting with police incriminations of those responsible for heinous crimes.”
“I don’t accept it. I consider rationality didn’t consume itself and we should be able to speak, find power in ourselves to speak with the language of rationalism,” he said adding, that it’s a shame, the world won’t forgive us, we won’t forgive ourselves. It’s a big responsibility towards our history, our people. We need to have civilized talks with people.”
“There is a third variant proposed by Jirair Sefilian, which will provide the opportunity to settle this situation peacefully and that situation is currently being discussed, and we follow those negotiations and we also make a steps forward to show our readiness of being constructive.”
A few days ago—on July 12, Garegin Chugaszyan, Deputy Chairman of the Founding Parliament, received a letter from Jirair Sefilian, who is in Vardashenq penitentiary, by which the latter entitled the responsibility of the initiated movement to Chugaszyan. The latter, however, has disappeared from July 17, as well as isn’t among those taking the regiment headquarters. Only yesterday, he made a post on Facebook, his cell phone is unreachable, and it isn’t possible to communicate with him.
“It was an armed attack, as a result of that attack a policemen has been killed, policemen got injuries, after which the police continues negotiations with the plotters, we have an officer for negotiations. For the time being, 4 persons remained out of 9 hostages, it’s a result of negotiations of the police, and why not, manifestation of their goodwill. In response to their manifestation of goodwill, there is proper attitude by the police. At the moment, while they’re negotiating, there is no any decision to take any measures, and I think, there won’t be such a decision,” Hunan Poghosyan said, promising that the detained will be released.
This morning at around 6 am an inhabitant from Artsakh has died. RA Ministry of Emergency Situation confirmed this information to 168.am. Arsen Makaryan, born 1979, has died at Lars checkpoint from heart attack.
