Pashinyan: “There are enemies and a conspiracy all around!”
At noon, May 21, during an attempt to take over the judicial system, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan made a lengthy speech.
At first glance, this speech was dedicated to reforms of the judicial system, since, as the story of Kocharyan’s release from custody showed, Pashinyan and his impudent comrades are firmly convinced that independent courts and fair sentences only happen if they express the interests of the Maidan authorities . Or, as the hyperactive prime minister likes to put it pathetically, “they are not directed against the people.”
However, an attentive listener could easily discern from the court chatter words about something more significant and dangerous than judges uncontrolled by maydauns.
Pashinyan said that there are specific forces in Armenia that are trying to create a split between the residents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. According to him, some representatives of the “corrupt system use their personal connections in Artsakh (as Nagorno-Karabakh is called in Armenia) for propaganda against the Armenian government and the Prime Minister.”
“Having studied all the facts, I see behind all this a conspiracy to start a new war and, perhaps, even surrender some territories, shifting responsibility to the government of the country. I see signs of high treason in this activity. As the Prime Minister of Armenia, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, I will resort to the most stringent measures to prevent such conspiracies,” Pashinyan powerfully pushed, to inspire.
The formidable prime minister did not reveal the details of what kind of forces are weaving conspiracies against Armenia and its radiant prime minister, leaving the public to guess at daisies and bite their nails in anguish and anxiety. But some light was shed on the prime minister’s statements by the “free press”, one of those that provides “escort services” to a profitable customer.
According to the Maidan troubadours, Vovaevich is seriously alarmed by the possible scenario of events: the outbreak of war against Nagorno-Karabakh, the loss of strategically important territories, the military-political defeat of Armenia, a military coup, the removal of Pashinyan and the trial of the “people's leader” on charges of treason and surrender to the enemy Karabakh.
At the same time, “experts” refer to an interview with the odious ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who claimed that during the short-term April war of 2016, “certain forces were waiting for Azerbaijani troops to take Martakert and Martuni in order to overthrow Serzh Sargsyan.” Well, just a Latin American scenario.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
And in order to avoid all this bitter cataclysm, Pashinyan believes that “the time has come to create a parliamentary commission to investigate all the circumstances of the April 2016 war.”
In turn, journalists, stunned by the stream of prime minister's revelations, rushed for clarification to the most informed person in charge on this issue - the current head of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Bako Sahakyan.
Sahakyan responded in the sense that he was “in shock” and stated that if there really are forces inside Armenia that are trying to provoke war and division, then they need to be identified. “These are traitors,” the Karabakh leader explained without mincing words. And he immediately added that he personally does not have information about such destructive forces.
Now is the time to remember that Bako Sahakyan was one of Robert Kocharyan’s guarantors in court in order to turn the elephant, inflated by Pashinyan’s party, back into a fly.
Leader of Karabakh and Kocharyan's guarantor Bako Sahakyan.
It is striking that the wave raised by Pashinyan with the reform of the judicial system and the conspiracy against Armenia, Karabakh and himself personally has a distinct character of personal revenge, directed not only at Robert Kocharyan and other defendants in the “March 1” case, but also at the guarantors, thanks in which the ex-president managed to be released before trial, with the showdown transferred to the Constitutional Court.
It is clear that there is no conspiracy and no military putschists - these horror stories are nothing more than a figment of the overheated imagination of the stubborn prime minister, but the quarrelsome communal character of Nikol Vovaevich demands that the vendetta be brought to its logical conclusion, relishing in the pots of all ill-wishers: “sit on the bunk and you, as I sat.”
Apparently, Vovaevich went to great lengths because he had too little chance of getting what he wanted through sports methods. For this purpose, a discussion was organized with an attempt to break the judges over the knee, and now there is a performance with bulging eyes about a conspiracy and a military coup.
To Pashinyan’s chagrin, we have to admit that he did not scare the judges: not a single judge wrote a letter of resignation or submitted his resignation.
It couldn't be any other way. Pashinyan constantly contradicts himself. For example, he claims that the judicial system of Armenia is completely independent. Then why is there such hysteria over Kocharyan’s release, which was no surprise to anyone? Why stupid attacks on judges?
Just look at the call of Hayk Sargsyan, a deputy from the ruling My Step party, published on Facebook, “[let’s take coffee, umbrellas, blankets and a good mood with us, gather at the courthouse to] force the judge to make a fair decision.”
The accusation of “usurpation of power” is futile; it was not possible to “sew” a bribe of $3 million into Kocharyan to extend his arrest. All these stubborn attacks with personal revenge began to cause irritation even in the West.
For example, on May 22, the American publication Eurasianet, in the article “Armenia: after the release of the ex-president, the prime minister enters into open confrontation with the judges and leadership of Karabakh,” with reference to a representative of Freedom House and with “names, addresses, passwords” on hand, tells how Pashinyan’s regime puts pressure on and convicts its political opponents.
In all likelihood, Pashinyan is actually ready to order the start of parliamentary hearings on the April 2016 war in order to punish and humiliate the opposing leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh - Pashinyan is openly not favored in the unrecognized republic and is harshly criticized. Vovaevich, as a person with a fine mental organization, is very offended by this and he sees counter-revolution everywhere.
In general, for the role of “father of Armenian democracy,” Pashinyan turned out to be clearly too petty and vindictive. And if he seriously intends to dig under the leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh, which he personally dislikes, then it is he, the petty Bonapartist, and not some abstract putschists, who will be destined to become the main schismatic of the Armenian people.
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