Thursday, January 10 2019 18:38

ArmInfo. The political price of the term "transitional justice" is very high. Such an action as "transitional justice" is being undertaken in countries where all  other possibilities have been exhausted, and where even if a force  has come to power that has the political will to investigate crimes,  society itself is not ready for this. 

On January 10, Larisa Alaverdyan, executive director of the  organization Against Right-Willing Abuse, said in an interview with  ArmInfo correspondent.She noted that we do not have such a situation.  "Today, a political force has come to power, which is determined to  reveal all crimes, including those related to corruption and economic  crimes. In addition, the society has completely legitimized this  power, in whose hands both legislative and executive power is  concentrated. And unfortunately, yes, by inertia, the judiciary is  ready to carry out certain prescriptions of the new government,  loudly voiced from the rostrum, "stressed Alverdyan.

The ex-ombudsman noted that we need to do everything possible to  ensure that the judiciary is held in the country. And transitional  justice does not help it to take place. "As for why they started  talking about him, the idea itself appeared in the depths of the  congress. This is a narrow party interest raised to the rank of state  interest. Meanwhile, when the American University of Armenia held a  discussion on transitional justice and where various international  experts were invited , one of them was struck, because Armenia is  completely different from Sierra Leone, where transitional justice  was applied, and almost everyone who came to us found that there was  no such crisis situation that required It would be such a high  political price.  Because we will be included in the number of  countries in which dictatorial regimes were prohibitive. "

Alaverdyan also stressed that if the government wants to prove in  such a way that all its promises are fulfilled, then they must  understand that it is not necessary to exercise transitional justice  in our country in the form in which it is fixed. It is better to  implement breakthrough reforms in the judicial system, and this  requires breakthrough reforms in the legislative and executive  branches. "That is, by a strong-willed decision to stop any  interference in the judicial system. After all, the statements of the  heads of power structures:" I think so: "," We need to do this: "this  is nonsense for developed countries. If earlier the executive branch  pressured judges secretly, without leaving even written  confirmations, today this is done through public statements, "the  ex-ombudsman stressed.She also noted that the statements of the head  of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan, who urges the  public not to concentrate on the content of the wiretap records and  forget everything, this reminds her of Serzh Sargsyan's policy.

 "I don't have to forget anything, moreover, I believe that a special  investigation should be carried out precisely on the content of this  record. No one wants to punish either the heads of the security  forces or the head of the country. And the people will be pleased if  the authorities admit their mistakes." stressed the executive  director of the public organization "Against rightful  arbitrariness."To the remark of ArmInfo's correspondent that Justice  Minister Artak Zeinlyan stated that transitional justice does not  imply interference in the judicial system, and it will be called upon  to help the judges, Alaverdyan said: "I do not agree with this  position. 

To help judges this means to interfere in the judicial system in some  way. to help, in order for us to have a judicial system, we must not  interfere with it. Neither through telephone conversations, nor  through the press, should we give directions to it. We have very high  literacy among law enforcement and judicial bodies, we must  skillfully use The right decision should be made according to the  law, not according to who will say what. The authorities have great  temptations and everyone who came to power today is also subject to  these temptations, you need to resist them, "Alaverdyan said."If  before the power that we criticized so much and were so happy to  overthrow it, put pressure on the judiciary by telephone law,  verbally, now it's rising to the rank of policy. I simply call on  everyone in power to remember what leverage they have. After all, if  a person who is at the head of a country legally uses his levers -  that's worth a lot, "concluded Alaverdyan.