Whenever someone reaches out and asks for my opinion on the current situation in Armenia, I find it most effective to simply direct them to Mikael Minasyan’s Requiem series. However, knowing that most people are unlikely to put in the hours necessary to go through all of them, I thought it would be useful to summarize the main points made in each episode so far.
Requiem 3 / Evidence
It’s important to recognize that people weren’t simply just wrong, which is forgivable, but that they actively participated in spreading disinformation, even if they did so unknowingly.
Now moving forward, we have moved on to a new stage of self deception, which is saying that Nikol Pashinyan lied, but we still hate the ones that came before him, because we believe the lies that Nikol Pashinyan told us about them. Here you must chose: Either Nikol Pashinyan lied or he did not.
Mikael Minasyan then says that Armenians must finally learn to rely on facts and proof. Here are things that can’t be disputed:
Armenians are forced to apply to foreign embassies to end the suffering of Armenian prisoners of war because the Armenian state does not exist at the moment. Normally, only stateless people, such as the Kurds, are reduced to such desperate strategies.
On the fourth day of the war, the Chief of Staff told Pashinyan that war must be stopped, but Pashinyan chose to ignore it. On October 20th, when losses were still moderate, Russia said the war could have been stopped with still favorable results for Armenia.
When presented with damnable information, the supporters of Pashinyan still resort to ad hominem attacks and distractions. When Movses Hakobyan provided an endless list of acts of treason committed by Pashinyan, the Nikol Pashinyan public relations campaign began spreading photos of Movses Hakobyan’s house. While this may seem very normal to Armenians, a more sane person would ask: 1) do we know that that is Movses Hakobyan’s house? 2) Was that house acquired through illegal means? 3) Did Nikol Pashinyan not know this was the case when he appointed Movses Hakobyan to his current position upon taking power? 4) Does any of that have anything to do with the unbelievable accusations of treason made by Hakobyan?
If Nikol Pashinyan had simply resigned after the war, even if Armenia was forced to follow the treasonous agreement he had signed, by simply reversing the order in which things were done, prisoners of war could have been returned before Karvachar was handed over, and we could have avoided the suffering we are currently experiencing.
Both the former chief of police and the former head of the National Security Service have stated that Pashinyan has previously given illegal orders of violence to be used against protestors, which they have refused to carry out.
During the war, Russia offered Armenia AK automatic rifles for $243 per rifle, but Armenia refused and instead purchased those from Pashinyan ally “Patron” Davit Galastyan’s factory for $385 per rifle.
Minasyan ends this episode by reminding members of the government that forty percent of the victims of “Operation Nemesis” were treasonous Armenians, and that the authorities should resign and allow the court to decide their fate, rather than leaving it to the streets.