The Republican Party Must Reconcile with the Idea of Losing the Ugly Creature They Created: Arthur Sakunts

Human rights defender Arthur Sakunts wrote on his Facebook page: "The Republican Party must reconcile with the idea and fact of losing the ugly creature they created, similar to Frankenstein. One question for the prominent members of the Republican Party: why are you making noise? It's unclear.

What you have sown with the imposition of your authoritarian Constitution, you are now 'harvesting.' The Constitution imposed on the citizens of Armenia is neither legal, nor democratic, nor in line with the principles of sovereignty and social state, and it completely contradicts the unchangeable nature of two articles regarding both content and essence.

The Constitution imposed on the citizens of Armenia is a document that codifies and legitimizes the usurpation of the state by an individual and a single political party, which was effectively rejected by the Velvet Revolution of 2018 and no longer holds any legitimacy. Referring to the provisions of your imposed Constitution, which has been rejected by the citizens during the Velvet Revolution, is at least absurd.

Yes, you are referring to your self-created and rejected document with only one justification: that in your perception no revolution took place in 2018, which, to put it mildly, does not correspond to reality, no matter how stubbornly you refuse to reconcile with that already established fact. You cannot accept the reality of the peaceful, bloodless, uniquely non-violent mass disobedience protests; you would have preferred at least one drop of blood to be shed, so you could have had substantial arguments for exploitation and manipulation, but you don't have any, and you are stubbornly striving to obtain such an argument, yet you will not succeed; it will not happen.

There will be mistakes, because you have left no resources for being without mistakes. You know better what kind of Frankenstein state system you have created, and humanizing it—both visually, in substance, and in essence—is a very difficult process, a very difficult one. Meanwhile, you spare no effort to protect your created Frankenstein model as if it were the apple of your eye, a model that has ensured neither your safety nor ours. Do not hinder and be hindered, and reconcile with the idea and fact of losing what you have created with your Frankenstein model."