Armenian transformations on the seventh day of the eco picket

November 18 was the seventh day of the picket of environmentalists and civil activists who joined them on the road from Lachin to Khankendi. Yesterday, the young participants of the action addressed through youtube to the Armenians in Karabakh with a proposal for humanitarian assistance and a joint peaceful life in the region. They emphasized the purely ecological purpose of the demonstration.

On December 16, at the plenary session of the Milli Majlis,  the MP Tural  Ganjaliyev and others proposed to establish posts of customs and border state services of Azerbaijan on the Lachin road.

On the other side of the picket, in the city of Khankendi, some Armenians are talking about the need for a new war with Azerbaijan. These opinions were collected in a report by the “Dozhd” TV channel, which was expelled from Europe. Other Karabakh Armenians openly say that when the Azerbaijanis open the road, some of the Armenian residents will leave the region.

In a post titled "The Seventh Day of the Siege," Karabakh blogger David Stepanyan writes: "They say that saving the drowning is the work of the drowning, but this should not become an escape one by one. I know that as soon as the road is opened, there will be families who will leave Stepanakert. Hundreds of families left during the war and did not return and will leave again."

He also expressed skepticism about R. Vardanyan's intention to hold a rally in Khankendi.

"Honestly, the Azerbaijanis closed the road under the slogan of ecology, that is, they formally blocked the road not for ordinary residents of Artsakh, but specifically for trucks taking ore from our mountains. What does the mine give in return to people who turned out to be "golden" hostages? rally? To show someone that we are ready to defend his mine with all the people?"

There are no Karabakh Armenians who want to stay and live according to the laws of Azerbaijan in the media field.

On November 16, anti-Russian demonstrations took place in Yerevan. Participants often used the word "should" in their speeches: Armenia - to withdraw from the CSTO, Russia and Europe - to move from words against Azerbaijan to deeds. The demonstrators did not specify what exactly Russia and the West should do for the Azerbaijanis to remove the picket on the road. Only the director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ashot Melkonyan, suggested hitting Azerbaijan in the jaw.

The farther from Armenia, the more public Armenians speaking from the position of realism. Former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Tigran Avakyan said that the Armenians should come to terms with the status of autonomy and stop fighting for "independence". But President I. Aliyev has stated several times that there will be no status for the Karabakh Armenians.

The most radical speech these days made the former adviser to the first president of Armenia, Zhirayr Libaridyan, who lives in the United States. On December 17, an interview with him was published on the Aravot website. Responding to the correspondent's statement about the torture of Azerbaijanis over Armenian soldiers, he recalled the 700,000 Azerbaijanis expelled from their lands by Armenians.

Zhirayr Liparityan said that during one of his lectures a woman asked, what about the issue of recognition of the genocide? "... I answered with a question: a grandmother from Zangelan, who had to leave her village after the first war, and holding her grandson's hand, I don't know where to go ... These grandmother and grandson are worse, because they are Azerbaijanis, and the grandmother is Armenian, who left Achn and did not know where to go, was she better? Was she just a good mother? Torture... you will decide the future of the people because it is so? Do you know what the Azerbaijanis think: you made 700 thousand people refugees; you humiliated us for 25 years "What do you expect from us now? That is, there were no tortures in other wars? ... If we want to have a future, we must create stability and the means to become stronger. We have no right to sacrifice these people to genocide, we don't have this right," said Zhirayr Liparityan.