Arithmetic and cynicism lessons from Armenian time-servers

It is annoying to waste our own and your time on yet another traitorous statement of the current government, but we refuse to participate in the blows to the remnants of the Armenian world with our silence.

This time, the matter concerns the scandalous statement of the Armenian Minister of Finance. Vahe Hovhannisyan is positive that the Armenians forcibly deported from Artsakh do not hasten to take advantage of the government programme of assistance in acquiring housing, because the government is doing too well for them and therefore Artsakh Armenians are simply not interested in such incentives. We are not going to discuss the Government’s programme in detail – that would resemble ‘massacre of the innocents’ (though they are not). What’s most important to remember about it: it’s of little use to small families; its territorial constraints and implementation format will not favour the repopulation of regions and border villages, but instead will encourage the outflow of the local population and corruption schemes with the encashment of the allocated funds; finally, to benefit from it, one must be an Armenian citizen.

It is no wonder that Artsakh Armenians have been disoriented after the blockade and deportation and cannot count on the support of the Third Republic (unless one considers as such the 50,000 drams (about 110 USD) per month paid jointly with the ‘Red Cross’ to those who reside permanently in Armenia and who have no property in the territory of ‘Real Armenia’ or family members with such). This is why, contrary to Nikol Pashinyan’s beliefs, the retention of Artsakh passports is not due to a desire to ‘get out’ of participation in a potential war (and this is what we are told by the supreme deserter, who decided to make money out of almost every Armenian under 37 years of age who had not served in the army and was never subject to military duty in Armenia). And how could this have crossed the minds of refugees who arrived at the ‘crossroads of peace’?

The bottleneck is that the residents of Artsakh originally considered themselves citizens of Armenia. They had no idea that their Armenian passport – a document of a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, which obliges the state to protect its holder – was worthless in the eyes of those who issued it. The Turkish commandant Pashinyan declared that Artsakh Armenians, despite their passports, are not citizens of Armenia, as soon as they arrived on the territory of ‘Real Armenia’. In doing so, he forced the Armenian passport holders, starved and tormented by war, tragedy and disease, into exhausting multi-day queues for new ones. Through his statements, Nikol Pasha also misguided foreign embassies, which led to a number of visa refusals.

No man in their senses would give up their home. One could assume that in the eyes of Pashinyan’s cult witnesses, Artsakh Armenians are masochists who ‘willingly’ left their ancestral homes and now refuse the ‘opportunity’ to buy a new one here just to be able to spend the 50,000 paid to them on rent. Only they are a cult that does not realise that Artsakh Armenians fought for their home to the last and refuse these minor ‘compensations’ and ‘citizenship’, which they ought to have from the beginning, only out of fear that it will deprive them of their rights as refugees and return to their homes.

After all, not a single official has so far found it worthwhile to explain to the Artsakh Armenians their rights instead of intimidating them with the termination of penny payments. And after all, not a single official has any idea that one can cherish a piece of native land and be ready to fight for the rest of its parts, even though the person occupying the office of the Minister of Finance of this Motherland has not yet grasped basic arithmetic, and even though these people are being deprived of the right to be called a citizen and dehumanised nearly as an enemy.