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The Youth Are Victorious: Lessons from My Former Student
Special to the Armenian Weekly
In the middle of the Electric Yerevan protests in June 2015, I was walking around then-occupied Baghramyan Avenue, when I came across a young breaking student of mine named Hratch. I had seen him and his friends on the front-lines of the movement as far back as May, whe
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The resignation of PM Sargsyan is not enough.
Even if Pashinyan becomes PM, that is not enough because he will be stymied by the RPA majority in the National Assembly, and the people who support the RPA: judges, oligarchs, police, army, civil servants, businesses, and all kinds of thieves and murderers. The PM will be a mere figurehead.
The RPA establishment is fighting back and pretending it cares about the people when it really cares about two things only: money and power.
This revolution is about to fail unless the opposition can muster the power to shut down the country and force a new, fair election of the National Assembly and PM.
Then the RPA establishment must be taken down – root and branch.
Their ill-gotten funds overseas must be seized and repatriated.
Shame on those who have colluded with these establishment thieves for decades. We shall remember.