Epress.am News from Armenia
The food sent by Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP Vazgen Karakhanyan did not reach Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who’s been on a hunger strike in Liberty Square since Mar. 15.
Speaking to Epress.am, Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan said that Karakhanyan’s statement that he sent cheese, bread, sausages and tomatoes to Hovannisian is simply not true.
“Probably those who delivered the food given by Karakhanyan sent it to a different address and told Karakhanyan that they sent it here. No one’s brought any such thing here,” he said.
Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan, in turn, said this too is the first time she’s hearing about this, and when Epress.am informed her that Karakhanyan characterized his move as a humanitarian gesture, she said:
“If one did such a thing, then that’s not a humanitarian, but a cannibalistic gesture.” [Her statement in Armenian was a play on words, which literally translates to “not a man-loving, but a man-eating gesture”.]
As previously reported, Karakhanyan, responding to a journalist’s question as to whether he’d gone to visit Hovannisian, said, “To tell the truth, I haven’t gone, but I’ve sent foodstuffs; he refused to accept them.”
The journalist then asked, why did Karakhanyan send food to someone on a hunger strike: was he trying to tempt him?
“No, of course, no. I made my humanitarian gesture,” he responded.