Epress.am News from Armenia
At the core of the developments taking place in the Arab world is the return to the dream of human freedom and dignity, every person’s desire to overcome the unity of the executioner and the victim. Armenia lost its revolution in the wreckage of the Soviet Union, when it started the war over Karabakh, said Caucasus Center of Peace-Making Initiatives (CCPI) president Georgy Vanyan in an interview with the publication South Caucasus.
“We chose to go back in time, to feudalism; we abandoned independence and freedom. In this feudal process we make choices every day, preferring the freedom of slavery, observing all the taboos imposed by the dictatorship of national unity.
“And each person, individually, has long been observing how his dream of freedom and dignity is dying in the daily ritual of the ‘national question.’
“One who goes to the opposition rally demanding freedom and dignity, where the term ‘Serzh Sargsyan’s Mubarakization’ is coined [i.e. by the opposition], returns home [disappointed] with a bowed head. From the platform they say, NOT NOW. Because we are not Egypt and Egypt doesn’t have the Karabakh conflict…,” Vanyan said, as cited by NewCaucasus.com.
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