WHEN IS THE END? - Open Letter by Lilia Chakarian

WHEN IS THE END - Open Letter

Mr. non-legal President, you may consider my article as an open letter as well. It has almost been a year since you have started playing your role, which is called the President of the Republic of Armenia, and it should be said that you play it pretty bad. Not only me, but I believe any Armenian would not ever think that during the independence (which we had been dreaming about), we would be among those countries, which are reckoned to violate human rights, have despotic regime, have a violated press, have reporters who are persecuted, are corrupted , and have shameful social-economic conditions. So, as you sow, you shall mow... Well, everything one after another... The tragedy of your governing began with the addition of another sad day to the history of Armenia. You are right. March 1st can be reckoned among the memorial days of innocent victims, can be considered as another genocide, this time not by Turks, but by Armenian authorities – a crime against one’s own nation. The authority, which Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the leader of ANC (Armenian National Congress), called Tatar-Mongol regime. The door of the Armenian Government was knocked with bloody hands. I think it is needless to talk about the election falsifications, because since 1998 and until the present, all the elections in Armenia had been falsified, and the brilliant proof to that are severe censures of the authorities of Armenia by different international organizations: the US State Department, Human Rights, Freedom House, Helsinki Human Rights Committee, European Council… Shall I continue or that is enough?
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After March 1st the real hunt began against the oppositional political figures and reporters. Some of them had been arrested; some of them managed to flee the country; some of them were bought by you; some of them stayed in Armenia scared to live in their own homes and were forced to seek shelter in the houses of kind people. Thank God that not everyone is as inhumane as you are! Presently, those people are persecuted, who try to give some truthful information or word to the people, who have lost their minds. Presently, Armenian prison cells are full of political prisoners. Kharabagh heroes, who freed our country from Azerbaijanian invaders, are now in prisons. Not only had they been your friends some time ago, but also our national heroes. For the people, they have been and still are heroes, but for you and your Tatar-Mongol power now, they are criminals.

I don’t even want to say “shame on you!”, because if you had shame, the country wouldn’t be in such a miserable condition, our heroes wouldn’t be in prisons, we wouldn’t have so many innocent victims when you occupied the position of the President, and we wouldn’t have so many crying mothers…
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To all of these, you added your ignorant soccer politics, by connecting the re-opening of the border with Turkey with Kharabagh issue. You do everything to correct the shame, which is called an unlawful President, but instead, by trying to become legitimate, you are constantly making political mistakes.
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Your disgraceful meetings with different representatives of the Diaspora prove once again that you are not the Armenian President of the Armenian nation.
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‘No!’ to your soccer politics; ‘no!’ to your totalitarian empire! Go away and free us from your sad and criminal presence! And, in the end, as a representative of the forth power, I demand: Leave us in peace! Stop beating us, persecuting, and imprisoning us! Leave in peace the police and the prosecutors! You have turned them into your personal footmen. How long is it possible to violate the Constitution? I am already hesitating: is there an Armenian Constitution or not? Answer this question!
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I was a young kid when Armenia became independent. I would never think that I needed to hide in my Fatherland for about a year, only because I prefer democracy, constitutional laws, and human rights… I would never think that our police, who should protect our people, could subject me to beating without fault. I would never think that our people should go out to the streets with fear, because the wolf rule exists there. Skinheads, oligarchs’ bodyguards, special units, and policemen scare people. Whoever is not with them, is their enemy. I would never have imagined my country to have this number of impoverished people! I would never think that the Armenian language will be so much violated and the State and the people’s national language will be such a mixed up language, which will be called “bro’s” language. I would never think that the people will emigrate so much, and the main reason would be that people are scared and unprotected.
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I have lived for several years in a democratic country of the USA. I know what the Constitution is, what democracy is, what peoples’ rights are, and I dream that if not me, at least my child will witness a lawful and civil elected President in Armenia, competent Government and National Assembly. You blame me that my articles and messages are immediately printed on the Internet site “Yerevan Nights” in Los Angeles, which, supposedly gives incorrect information about your authorities' activities to the Armenians residing in Los Angeles. I should make you happy by informing you that Los Angeles is the only Armenian colony where there is freedom of speech, where there are free TV programs, which are constantly informing the public about all criminal activities of the authorities in Armenia. I should tell you that I am going to send this to “Yerevan Nights.”
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In the end, although I am much younger than you, I would like to give you some advice. Beware of God’s punishment! Not a single deed remains unpunished!

City of Yerevan
December 11, 2009
Lilia Chakarian

Source Publication: Lilia Chakarian
Source: http://www.yerevannights.com

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