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“IF THEY HAVE PRIDE, THEY WILL RESIGN”

Politics

The RA committee on defense of political prisoners and the persecuted joined the 24 political prisoners who had declared a hunger strike today in jailhouses and the eight members of the committee will participate during work hours.

For example, Vardan Harutyunyan and Karapet Rubinyan participated today in the demonstration in front of the Government building and believe that it is not worth sitting somewhere and declaring a hunger strike when the authorities don’t even pay attention to that.

They are expressing their protest with hunger strikes for the cases that have ended, investigations and trials.

“All of the verdicts reached, including the verdicts of the Kentron-Nork Nork communities’ general jurisdiction courts for the case of Smbat Ayvazyan, are all just papers that are unjust. They will perish in the course of time and be ridiculed,” said Vardan Harutyunyan. He remarked that the committee did not declare the hunger strike.

“We are simply joining them and support the demonstrations of our friends in jail.”

Harutyunyan believes that hunger strikes are not a just way for struggle in Armenia.

“Hunger strikes are just a way to express protest. We don’t think that the authorities will resign by seeing us starve.”

Karapet Rubinyan tends to differ. According to him, the authorities may resign even in the result of the hunger strike, but under one condition: if they have the pride in them to resign.

Taking into account the fact that the existing authorities neglect the political prisoners and the demonstrations organized by their supporters, including the hunger strike, Karapet Rubinyan is of the opinion that a hunger strike had to be declared in any case.

Member of the RA committee on political prisoners and the persecuted, commander of the Shushi separate squadron Jirair Sefilyan joined the hunger strike in his office and is getting ready for the protest scheduled for tomorrow near the Foreign Affairs Ministry building for the Karabakh conflict.

He joined the political prisoners’ hunger strike just for support and assures that nothing will be solved with a hunger strike.

Sefilyan has no hope in the international community. “It makes no sense to send documents to international organizations because they have never done nor will do anything good for us.”