Candid Camera

25/07/2005 Armen BAGHDASARYAN

Why did the Chief of National Security Services Carlos Petrosyan get
removed from office? It is very hard to answer this question because it
is not clear as to what his department workers were doing during his
time in office. Was he involved in national security? Was he gathering
compromits? Was there a state racket involved, or was it all tied
together? What’s also interesting is to know in which area Carlos
Petrosyan had the most flaws? In any case, let’s list the events which
took place during the last couple of days. In addition, the events are
not connected to each other by the order in which they follow. We are
simply stating the facts:

The leader of the Armenian Aryan Unity claimed that there are many
homosexuals in the presidential cabinet, the government and the
National Assembly and added that he has proof of that by video tapes.

Arshak Sadoyan stated that he had proof (video tapes) according to
which the Minister of Justice of the RA had taken a bribe of $7 million
dollars.

It is well-known that the National Security Services is still the only one that has the right to shoot candid video tapings.

Everyone is aware of the fact that the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (ARF) has presented the list of cadre reforms to President
Robert Kocharyan during the past couple of days.

One day after the removal of Carlos Petrosyan from office, there were
many rumors flying around that Armenia will be experiencing an
earthquake. It is a fact that this type of wrong information could only
be given out by the National Security Services (NSS).

On the same day, the telephone lines got cut.

Three days after the removal of Carlos Petrosyan, it was announced that
the remaining part of the “October 27” trial was shortened.

Almost simultaneously there was an announcement made that “Karabagh-Telecom” was entering Armenia.

As we can see, there were a number of events that took place in just a
matter of days. It is hard to say what was the reason for all the rush.
Our only hope is that during this time, Carlos Petrosyan has managed to
buy a villa in, say Tsakhkadzor, or has written memoirs about stolen
cars and the cadastre price of land while spending time in the greenery
regions of Armenia.