The incidents of October 23 show that the authorities are confused. However, the problem is which authorities are concerned.
In fact, the police attacked a group of people consisting of several dozens of citizens, who did not violate any laws, bate them by using hand-weapons and took them to the police station by vans, however it is not clear so far “who gave the order of those actions”. Everyone agrees that they did a stupid thing, however no one knows who should be responsible for it. It is turning out that there are divisions in Armenia, which are controlled by unknown forces.
The strangest thing was the announcement of the governmental party, ARP, which representatives said that the mentioned incident was clearly against their candidate for presidency and they were highly interested in discovering the real initiators. As we see, it is where the problems start. It turns out that this political party, which has majority in the parliament, is not able only to control the situation, but also cannot imagine who could organize such stupid show and arrest chief editors of two independent newspapers. Maybe this is the model of “an organized state”.
Of course, if ARP really wants to discover the ones who were guilty, it can do it within 15 minutes, and there will be no need to form a special commission. In order to find it out, they can just find the chief of those policemen, ask him who ordered them to do that. At least, everyone in Armenia understands that no colonel or general can do such things solely without any command. If the republicans say that they (and their candidate) don’t know anything about it, it means that besides them only one man can give such orders, who is president Kocharyan.
Certainly, people understand that Kocharyan is going to leave soon and henceforth whatever happens they will connect it with president Kocharyan. In a word, the process of making Kocharyan a “former criminal” has already started. However, it is time to make a choice: wither ARP controls the overall situation in the country and bears responsibility for everything, or ARP is “a simple party”.
By the way, there is one more very interesting fact. In fact, there were massive arrests in Armenia, two chief editors have been taken to hospital, two party leaders and others (by the way, criminal cases have been launched against all of them) were beaten. However, the TV channels did not cover that information at all. The only channel to cover that event was “Yerkir-Media”, which had to cut off that reportage in its further programs. The other channels were either showing the stars, who have become borrowing already, or were advertising heating facilities. A question originates: by whom are the “independent but responsible” TV companies controlled? According to Robert Kocharyan’s spokesman, they are not controlled by anyone, are fully independent, just during one day they have decided not to cover the events, which are out of people’s interests. We believe his words, however we more believe that people were more interested in those events than in the fact that a construction adjacent to the local school of Aygehovit village community had been totally reconstructed. Thus, we wander who ordered the TV companies not to speak anything about that incident and why he did it.
In a word, if we believe what the republicans say, it will turn out that there are “undiscovered forces” in Armenia, which are acting against ARP. Furthermore, those undiscovered forces are totally controlling both the law enforcement bodies and the TV companies. According to that logical conclusion, if ARP wants to win the upcoming presidential elections, it has to struggle against the mentioned undiscovered forces first.
Those who say that everything is predictable in politics are mistaken.