Horrifying Scene: Under Shouts of ‘Murderer’, ‘Executioner’, and ‘Turk’, Nikol Slowly Walked Towards Government Building, Zohrabyan

After the politically charged suicide of November 10, I began to understand Khalil Gibran’s words that a man commits suicide out of self-preservation instinct,” announced NA Deputy from the ‘Prosperous Armenia’ faction, Naira Zohrabyan, commenting on the incident this morning when Nikol Pashinyan walked towards the government building, accompanied by several hundred police officers and snipers, amidst shouts of ‘Nikol, traitor’.

In the deputy’s Facebook post, she stated:

“The delicate art of suicide. Khalil Gibran, who is a philosopher and painter, somehow believed that a man commits suicide out of self-preservation instinct. Today, I watched as Nikol slowly walked towards the government building under the chants of ‘murderer’, ‘executioner’, and ‘Turk’. It was a horrifying scene. Because, unlike his teammates, who are constantly in cognitive dissonance, he understands very well that no memory machine will ever erase the stigma of handing over Artsakh, of handing over Shushi, the interrupted lives of thousands of boys. The stigma on his forehead. And it doesn’t matter how many fakes the NSS will catch today or how many citizens the police will injure. All that will be forgotten in an hour. The fake, the broken nose, the blood dripping from the shirt. These are current political somersaults whose life lasts from one news block to the next. There will remain another blood— the blood of thousands of boys that will never dry. There will remain the engraving on the forehead— the traitor of Shushi and Artsakh. A sincere, heavy, very heavy fate. I would not wish it on my enemy. Simply, after the politically charged suicide of November 10, I began to understand Khalil Gibran’s words that a man commits suicide out of self-preservation instinct. He commits suicide to survive. If he wants to survive.”