YEREVAN (A.W.)—The armed opposition group calling themselves “Sasna Tsrer,” which occupied a Yerevan police station on July 17, released all four police officers they were holding hostage after extensive negotiations with the Armenian government. The negotiations were done through a mediator, Vitaly Balasanian.
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Thank God ????????
If the government gives in to the demands of the Daredevils of Sassoon, what is to stop another group from doing the same thing six months from now, taking hostages and demands things? That the regime is bad, corrupt, ineffective, incompetent, there is no doubt about that. But armed insurrection is not the way to go about affecting change in a civil society. Now matter how frustrating, hard, confusing and long-term the principals of peaceful political activism must be affirmed and insisted-upon. The principal of “rule of law” is preferable for a civil society than the “rule of gun”.