Where are you going, SS???

Where is SS going with all of this?

As has been pointed out time and time again, the PACE recommendations are barely being followed on even the most superficial level. Forget that they are the recommendations of an international organization, SS’s approach to governing started out and continues to be completely unconstitutional. Over a hundred citizens are in prison, without charges, without trials – political prisoners; and when there are trials, they are ludicrous at best.

A human rights activists what shot by a pro-SS individual, and you can guess which side the police are taking (unzipped has a good summary of what’s going on). And now, there is word that Sefilyan may be expelled from Armenia. I have read that Sefilyan was no longer an ARF-D member as of 1999 (I don’t know why), but it’s pathetic that they’re not standing up for him. Often when people leave the ARF, it is for differences in political thinking. I can’t fathom how wide that schism must be for them not to be able to raise a voice now to defend a man who left his life from the Diaspora to fight in Kharabagh. If the ARF “compromised” certain ideals so that they could be part of the coalition and fight for what they think is right, then why isn’t Sefilyan on the top of that list? Not to worry, I’m sure decades from now they will claim Sefilyan as one of their own, as they have done with so many others whom they have criticized harshly, or to whom they have provided no support, including Hrant Dink and Monte Melkonian.

How long can SS keep going in this manner? Is there an endpoint?

And where, oh where, is Kocharyan...?


[a good source for info/interviews/biography of Sefilyan can be found in English and Armenian at azadakrum.org]