Indeed, the location (RA capital city Yerevan) of the FIDH 37th conference, the demand of the president of the organization addressed to the RA government to immediately release the political prisoners of Armenia, objective investigation of the events of March 1, 2008, re-opening of the A1+ were indeed pleasant facts. The meeting of the human rights defenders with the parents and relatives of the victims of the March 1 and the relatives of the political prisoners proceeded in a quite exciting environment. And if we add to this the active participation of the conference participants in the ANC rally then we can definitely agree with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who said that the energetic background of the rally was unprecedented. This was done for the opposition. It was originally evident that the title of this conference – protection of human rights, wouldn’t be pleasant for the authorities. The material of the discussion was even more unpleasant – the state of human rights in Armenia and the RA judicial system. Besides this, the oppositionists, who were present at the conference, introduced the guests to the reality of the human rights status and justice system of Armenia with their replicas and speeches. And after all that they’d still freely walk in the hall. This was making the authorities nervous because the situation wouldn’t allow them to immediately punish them by humiliating their human rights, hitting them and cursing. During the conference of the human rights watchdog the government did what it had the option to do. They were weakened and tried to count the benefits instead of loss. The 37th FIDH conference organized in Yerevan, wasn’t it? Therefore, Armenia is the only country in the region, where the high level of democracy allows these people to gather, even participate in the opposition rally and even stand on the podium. And then the media outlets would mention that 400 human rights defenders have arrived in Armenia to partake in the conference. And for Armenia 400 human rights defenders are first of all tourists. And this means 400 hotel numbers, sightseeing, lunch, dinner, supper. And finally publications in various magazines of the world… However, it is not necessary to be in the government to understand that the mentioned meetings of the human rights watchdog, the 37th conference were merely events to inspire the society with hope and good mood. But to assume that this conference can efficiently affect the release of the political prisoners, reopening of the A1+ or the investigation of the death cases of March 1 is mildly said unrealistic. First of all the A1+ will soon celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ban of the channel. Relevant international structures and even the European Court demanded that the A1+ should be reopened. As we see, the leadership of the country doesn’t rush to abide with its obligation because it turns out that the international human rights watchdogs and the European Court don’t have much of reputation in our country. The court litigations of political prisoners and particularly Nicol Pashinyan proceeded with evident violations of the law and occurred in front of the representatives of embassies and human rights watchdogs. This time as well various international organizations convinced Serzh Sargsyan to release the political prisoners. All these prisoners are still imprisoned. The opinions and claims of the international organizations regarding the investigation of the March 1 events are outdated because the government of Armenia has already promulgated that the March 1 page is closed. There are human right watchdogs in Armenia as well. It means there are organizations, which are entitled to protect our rights. But protection of human rights in our country resembles an artificial plant with a red plastic flower. At any rate, even if Armenia needs such conferences then those don’t need to proceed in participation of human rights defenders. We need conferences in participation of psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and philosophers. It means when a man is hurting the rights of another man and enjoys it then this is no more a legal issue. Same does the government to its people. The reason of that is the inadequate understanding of the situation; in other words, absence of philosophy. As these issues were not the theme of the 37th conference of FIDH then perhaps there is no need to be so thrilled about the fact that there were so many human right watchdogs gathered in one spot. In general, the activities of human rights organizations in our country remind us of a service that is recently being offered to customers of Holiday Inn. The hotels offer free of charge services to customers, a person who’d warm up your bed. According to the short statement that appeared on the Internet the press secretary of the Hotel network simplified this, “It is the same thing as to have a hot bottle of water in your bed.” So how does this process take place? Five minutes prior to entering the bed at your request the hotel administration sends to your room someone with sterile clothes, which covers the whole body including hair. That person comes to your bed and stays inside for 5 minutes and warms up the bed with the body. Then that person disappears. And after that you enter the warm bed and fall into baby sleep. The maid warms up the bed but for only the first five minutes. In order to keep the warmth the whole night you need to use the warmth of your body.
