Citing Law and Rights is Merely a Means to an End: Hasratyan

Former spokesperson for the Artsakh Defense Army Senor Hasratyan wrote on his Facebook page: “It is naive and doomed for a nation to attempt to regain its normal functioning in a country held hostage by the randomness of power solely through the force of law. In the face of any randomness, especially in politics, citing law and rights is merely a means to achieve one's goals.

In reality, those in power come through illegality (by blocking speed cameras, breaking down the doors of radio station offices, involving schoolchildren in protests, disrupting the normal functioning of interstate roads, etc.) and subsequently maintain their power through continued illegality (by taking hostages among MPs, blocking courts, dividing their own citizens into ‘the old and the new,’ ‘the blacks and the whites,’ etc.).

It follows that in order to save the Fatherland, which is held hostage in the hands of such individuals, no matter how educated and intellectual the fighting citizens are in their lifestyle, they must rely not only on the power of LAW but also, if necessary, on tactics that the randomness of power currently holding it cannot anticipate...

Note - It is through this logic that almost all countries of the world, which today have their place and role under the sun, have acted. Otherwise, as a nation, we will remain in the view of humanity not with our independent and stable statehood, but at best with individuals like American-Armenian Saroyan, French-Armenian Aznavour, Soviet-Armenian Khachaturyan, and so forth... At worst, we will be represented by those who are unable to understand that Artsakh has historically been and remains Armenian...”