Out of sight, off the agenda

The Ministry of Turkish Affairs of Armenia does not drop out of the general rat race for the title of the main enemies of the Armenian world, in other words, for the love of their bosses. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already joyfully reported how easily 120,000 Armenians were ‘accepted’ in Armenia (without saying that it was their own fault that they had to be ‘accepted’), and that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is no longer on Armenia’s foreign policy agenda. But we have already arrived at the next stop of the train hijacked by two terrorist Turkish states – the rejection of the people of Artsakh as people and their basic social rights. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia announced with relief that after the deportation of Armenians from Artsakh, the issue disappeared – it was no longer on the agenda of the ‘bilateral’ relations with the terrorist state. Only a few countries on the world map could show such inhumanity towards even strangers, let alone their own kind. Armenia has become one of them. Obviously, there is no way to pass the ‘crossroads of peace’ without closing the Armenian Issue.

Of course, this has been a long time coming. Starting this month, almost all refugees will be deprived of allowances in conditions where there is no truly working housing program. This means that in the coming months, many will be left on the streets, and a significant part will go to look for conditions for a basic existence somewhere outside of Armenia. There is no point in discussing the human, demographic, economic, and cultural potential that Armenia is missing out on – we have already gone through all this with the Armenians of Northern Artsakh (Shahumyan region) and Soviet Azerbaijan. Obviously, if there is no majority of Artsakh Armenians in Armenia, there will soon be no ‘Artsakh issue’, there will be no Armenian Issue, there will be no Armenia. Just in case, the government destroys all these at once, for it understands that the issue of Artsakh is inseparable from the bigger Armenian Issue, and that the Armenian state remains Armenian as long as it solves them.

It has been only 1.5 years since they got out of the blockade and were ‘saved’ from yet another act of the Genocide. The authorities decided not to give them a chance to recover, as they do not give it to the entire Armenian world, increasingly exposing it to attacks from their masters – the Turkish world. Instead of funnelling all the resources donated by the ‘repentant’ and ‘sympathetic’ international community toward their original destination and requesting further financial and humanitarian support, the government decided to freeze half of the funds for new emergencies (who is next in line for refugee status in their own homeland?), and refuse to even discuss (!) the forms and sizes of the continuous support and ensure the further exodus of the Armenians of Artsakh from Armenia with the flywheel of hatred of their trolls and minions.

It remains to be seen to what extent this step will be appreciated by the true citizens of ‘Real Armenia’, who will have nothing to pay for their mortgages taken with the calculation that the refugees from Artsakh will keep collectively filling their pockets with the tiny allowances for a long time. Well, at least bankers will receive interest on non-payment or even confiscated houses and apartments.

We understand why the Young Janissaries of the Turkish commandant are disgracing themselves by such statements. Elections are just around the corner, there will be fewer places on the lists, and if the Turkish commandant loses, thousands of freeloaders will be left out at all. Scum like those who made a statement on the closure of the issue of the Armenians of Artsakh on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia hope that, by that time, there will be no Armenians left in Armenia, who will remind them of their own mantra regarding the Armenians of Artsakh: ‘go and work’, ‘Yerevan is not bees around a honey pot’. And, of course, they’re trying to make money while they can. Let’s see how today’s sleek officials, who had not worked a day before their benefactor Nikol and had never come across serious money before, will return to their natural state and try to survive in post-Avinyan Yerevan on the same 120,000 drams per month (about $300) – what now earn about half of the employed Artsakh Armenians. Suddenly, it will turn out that Yerevan, which they finally destroyed, is not so ‘smeared with honey’, if one tries to walk around it or take public transport, and not overwinter in Dubai, Cyprus, or California.

Better still, if they return to their native villages and towns and discover that there are practically no jobs in ‘Real Armenia’ outside Yerevan, while the rental price exceeds salaries. Maybe then they will start thinking about the frank confession of the Armenian state’s dismantling and Armenophobia. It will be much easier for people like them to live at the expense of the state, even if in prison. In the meantime, every day they are in power adds to us and our generations 10 years of meticulous work on their mistakes, assuming we merit the opportunity.