“Allowing us to speak about the army, we all give rise to Armenia’s Supreme Commander’s disgust, but somehow we will endure it,” said Sardarapat movement member Tigran Khzmalyan at a meeting today on the topic of “Recent incidents in the RA Armed Forces.”<\/p>\n
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Khzmalyan considers officials’ statements that one cannot criticize the army to be wrong.<\/p>\n
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“This is not a way to justify [oneself], those who think like this are sadly mistaken,” he said. <\/p>\n
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The key to the army’s and the public’s health and resolving problems Khzmalyan considers to be the traditional Armenian family, which, according to him, hasn’t perished.<\/p>\n
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“We, not having a state, exist as a family. For this reason, we have to take care of our families. In each Armenian family, there is at least one person that has a connection with the army,” he said. <\/p>\n
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“How did we get here?” he asked, then listed the circumstances, in his opinion, that led to the situation.<\/p>\n
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“In 1996, the government used force on its people for the first time. Following that were the incidents of Oct. 27, 1999 [i.e. the Armenian parliamentary shooting]. And here we had March. 1, 2008, where the government and the army came out against the people. The March 1 army became the police,” said Khzmalyan. <\/p>\n
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“The army is a prison, a police division, a gang, because a gangster ideology has developed in our society. The state and the army are victims of this ideology,” he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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