Collaborationists of the collaborationists

‘The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia has rejected a bill criminalising the denial of the Armenian Genocide’ – Erdogan, the Sultan of the genocidal Turkey, could only dream of reading such a headline. Through whose fault and thanks to whom? It is clear that since 2018, Turkish satrap Pashinyan and his team of Young Janissaries have been the №1 responsible for what is happening. They celebrate the loss of Artsakh, question the fact of the Armenian Genocide, intend to change the Constitution mentioning it, alienate Spyurk (Armenian communities), seek to destroy the reputation of the Armenian Church, tear us away from our own culture, remove the image of Mount Ararat from the state customs stamp – in short, dismantle the remnants of the Armenian statehood and the Armenian world in all possible ways.

Therefore, it is natural that the mentioned news headline refers to the actions of the collaborationist party ‘Civil Contract’, which voted against the bill. But who made possible this slap in the face of the Armenian world and the holy victims of the Genocide? Maybe the very same Dashnaks, the successors of those who helped the Young Turks come to power in the Ottoman Empire, speaking on behalf of the alliance led by Robert Kocharyan, who never bothered to adopt such a law during his two presidential terms?

Instead, the second president initiated the bidding process around the southern fortress of Armenia – Meghri, expressing his willingness to surrender the area in exchange for preserving part of Artsakh. Let us remind you that he did this at a time when the balance of power was still on our side and it was still possible to keep it that way. Then he decided to prevent this shameful deal with an impromptu bazaar haggling ‘Meghri in exchange for recognition of the Armenian Genocide’, which, in a maximum of 6 years, has also lost its relevance for him. He was concerned not about Azerbaijan’s growing military potential, but about the ‘trade imbalance with Turkey’. Interestingly, does today the Hayastan alliance also believe that opening the border with Turkey without preconditions will help to correct the balance in our favour?

The ‘opposition’ led by Robert Kocharyan does not hide the lack of good intentions towards Armenia. They were well aware of the fate of such a project in the parliament of the ‘Real Armenia’, which they voluntarily legitimise with their presence. Was it really worth it, for the sake of another proof of the well-known fact that the Turkish satrap is exactly what he is, to allow the only elective body of the Republic of Armenia, the National Assembly, to decide that it does not consider denial of the Armenian Genocide punishable? Was not there enough of other evidence that the ruling pack presents to us every day? Is it really necessary to compete with Pashinyan, who will cause more damage to the mood and international image of the Armenian world?

Let us say more: they did this while preserving the face of the ‘Civil Contract’. Some representatives of the Young Janissaries managed to move the issue from the moral and political to the legal plane, stating that the bill was simply superfluous, because such an article already existed in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. By the way, the existing article suggests stricter punishment for officials who deny the Genocide. Let us not start a legal discussion: it is enough that the ‘opposition’ has once again demonstrated that it is not ready to deal with substantive issues or propose fundamentally new solutions, which means it is not much different from the ‘authorities’ generated by it.

However, there is one important difference. The Turkish satrap renounces our identity and sovereignty sincerely and openly. And the ‘opposition’, proclaiming as ‘shrines’ the very values he desecrates, has no qualms about playing with those shrines, knowing full well it is casting pearls before swine. Either they do not know pigs (which is unlikely, since these are pigs they raised and have been sitting in the same room with for years), or they do not consider the memory of the victims of the Genocide to be sacred. In this case, it is not surprising that young people, who studied by the textbooks written under Robert Kocharyan and according to the programs of the ministers of education from the Dashnaktsutyun party, have grown up as young Janissaries, now writing new textbooks pleasing to the Turks.

Apparently, it is not the denial of the Armenian Genocide that should be criminalised first, but taking of these words in vain – especially by those who have deprived themselves of the moral right to do so.