HHK is pleased to see the struggle
Today the parliament approved the draft law on making changes in the law on "Language" with 71 for, 13 against and 1 neutral.
"Today is Day of Mashtots and they betrayed him," member of the initiative "We are against the opening of foreign language schools" Grizelda Ghazaryan told "A1+".
The Republican, BHK and OEK factions voted for the draft law, while the Dashnaktsutyun and "Heritage" factions and independent MPS Victor Dallakyan and Tigran Torosyan voted against.
After the vote, the people gathered at Melik-Adamyan Street started screaming "traitor" and "shame" and whistled.
"Many of them were convinced to come, not to mention that they are not fully proficient in Armenian," leader of the HHK faction Galust Sahakyan told "A1+".
But he was also pleased to see that "at least there were "scraps" that supported Armenian language."
Are you part of the "shreds" supporting the mother language? In response, Galust Sahakyan said: "I am not only a part, but am one of the ones responsible for the events and will dare to say that no matter what law is adopted, it cannot be out of the interests of the ideology of national schools."
Citizens gathered at Melik-Adamyan Street recalled how generously and cautiously academic Rafael Ghazaryan developed the law on "Language" during the first years of independence.
"Today these illiterates are changing that law. This is the end of the Armenian nation when they touch upon way of thinking in the language," said the academic's wife Grizelda Ghazaryan. According to her, the MPs and the government are in favor of foreign language instruction "because they want to educate children in foreign languages so they will leave the country, but we are the ones who keep this country."
Participating in the action was a Diaspora Armenian who said: "We fight to protect our language in the Diaspora and now we have to fight in the homeland as well."
Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan was not in parliament today.
