In Yerevan, authorities commemorated the anniversary of the Armenian Parliament Massacre but the The truth is still unspeakable
Երևանում իշխանությունները նշեցին Հայաստանի խորհրդարանի ջարդերի տարելիցը, սակայն ճշմարտությունը դեռևս անասելի է. Կառլո Կոպպոլայի հոդված.
This year too, the Armenian authorities commemorated the tragic events of October 27, 1999. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, together with the President of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturyan and the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, laid flowers at the memorial erected in the Park of the National Assembly and paid tribute to the memory of the statesmen and politicians who were victims of the massacre. The families of those killed also took part in the ceremony, but justice has not yet been definitively served!
This massacre has many things in common with the one in which President Aldo Moro was kidnapped and his escort eliminated, in Via Fani in Rome on March 16, 1978. As in the case of the massacre involving Aldo Moro and his escort, the truth is unfortunately still unspeakable. Everyone knows that the names of the instigators of those massacres cannot be said openly, not even today, out loud, because at their sound the moral abysses that wanted the Armenian people, like the Italian people, divided within themselves, would tremble and open up. For Armenia there is still today the echo of that gap between the corrupt and the corruptors, between the threatened and the extortionists, between the rich who are ever richer and the miserable who are ever poorer in a mix of international connivances that on that tragic October 27, 1999 were battling behind the Iron Curtains that had not yet fallen. In the massacre that took place in the Armenian Parliament, Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Speaker of the Parliament Karen (Serobich) Demirchyan, Yuri Bakhshyan, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Ruben Miroyan, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Leonard Petrosyan, Minister of Urgent Affairs, Henrik Abrahamyan, Member of Parliament, Armenak Armenakyan, Military Commander and Member of Parliament, Mikayel Kotanyan, Economist and Member of Parliament lost their lives. Apparently, it was just a settling of scores between the new and old politics of Armenia. In the choice to eliminate, alongside the Noble Fathers of the Fatherland, some precise personalities not of the first rank of politics, the macro interests of the instigators must be sought. Not a group of people killed at random but carefully chosen, while others were told that it was not the case that they should enter the Hall of Parliament that day. For many years, the future and the present of the State remained the moral victims of that massacre, with which the history of Armenia changed forever. The hand of the material assassins was carefully guided, if not "remote-controlled" in both cases: people who until the day before would have shot themselves in the foot due to inexperience and clumsiness had suddenly become precise and cold, calculating to the millimeter, able to move in a closed space like a movie set. These "tragic boys" with the gun in their hands, were perhaps guided by the Erinyes, the Cotnia deities, the Gorgons daughters of Phorcys, also giving time to those killed or kidnapped to pronounce their spiritual testaments, like Christ on Golgotha. The terrorists, "obsessed boys with intellectual affectations", were puppets under the yoke and the instrumentalization of politics, which governs, which does business in the shadow of a Cold War that has never ended and, like any self-respecting demon, plays hide and seek, hiding its own presence even from some of the material executors themselves.
The result is spectacular, or rather a pure spectacle. In the Moro case it is a cinematic drama in two parts, complete with extras, motorcyclists, barmen, aviators, florists present or absent, costume designers, prop men and bricklayers, scene photographers and clapperboard players, state TV programme directors, diegetic and extra-diegetic musical comments, temporal dilations to confirm the directorial risks, made explicit by continuous grammatical distortions, supported by impeccable choreography, consultancy by weapons masters and good assistants. In the second case, that of October 27 in Yerevan, it is a theatrical drama where the deaths are real. We are in post-Soviet Armenia and a bit of fake classicism satisfied the masses. Being a Senecan drama, there was no innovation in the idea of the show, no experimentation but only a precise and rigorous rewriting of "Oedipus Rex", a dry drama, with no introspection other than that of the hero, the one the instigators sought to destroy and denigrate in the eyes of the people. Oedipus/Karen to be shown as the generator of all evils, but Oedipus had no followers except Antigone, and Creon was ready to definitively affirm his power by chasing away all sorts of opposition. Only later, only at the end, would the posthumous psychologizations and the mea culpas or crocodile tears of the State arrive.
The directorial signature of the drama is very evident, so much so that the demiurge, Creon, comes out himself to receive applause on stage at the closing of the curtain, as if he were a Giorgio Armani at the end of the fashion show (but with less hair): same short-sleeved shirt even in winter to frame a Luciferian chest, an old-young body, embittered by the gym, prison and so much self-determination!
The trial of the terrorists lasted for 2001-2003. 6 militants, including their leader, Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen Hunanyan and his uncle Vram Galstyan, Derenik Bejanyan, Edik Grigoryan and Ashot Knyazyan sentenced to life in prison. Hamlet Stepanyan was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In essence a sort of common Armenian family but full of dysfunctional traits of violence and anger.
Among the main dark points of the story are the deaths of some members of the commando all in similar circumstances. Only Nairi and Karen Hunanyan, Derenik Bejanyan and are still alive. Vram Galstyan, according to the official version, committed suicide in the Nubarashen penitentiary on April 27, 2004. Hamlet Stepanyan, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison, died in May 2010 from a heart attack, possibly induced after drinking coffee. Norayr Yeghiazaryan, another indicted, died, shortly before being released, in a cell in the Nubarashen penitentiary, also of a heart attack. Eduard Grigoryan died on November 3, 2017 at the Erebuni Medical Center, also of a heart attack. The last to die in chronological order was Ashot Knyazyan in prison, still in the Nubarashen penitentiary and again due to yet another heart attack, last August 26, 2024. But the mysteries for a well-written mystery do not end here. There are other suspicious deaths such as that of the person in charge of the video surveillance of the Parliament Hall, and the theft of 4 minutes of recordings never found. However, it remains a principle if Armenia, if the Republic of Armenia does not come to terms with the Massacre of October 27, its history and its present will never be able to progress.
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