ArmInfo. A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was again desecrated in Yerevan. So, yesterday on the World Wide Web, photographs were disseminated in which the statue was engulfed in fire. Days before, unknown persons threw chicken eggs at the monument. After a while, unknown persons recaptured a part of the cladding from the pedestal.
To recall, the decision to erect the statue of Gandhi in Yerevan was made at a meeting of the Council of Elders on April 28, 2020. The installation of the statue was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gandhi. Then it was reported that the initiative to erect the statue came from the Armenian Foreign Ministry. The Indian side has undertaken all the necessary expenses. 43 members of the Council of Elders voted for the installation of the statue, two abstained. The statue was erected this spring in one of the capital's squares.
At the same time, the Armenian mass media reports, that the day before yesterday, after the slabs in front of the pedestal were broken, the Indian Ambassador to Armenia declined in writing an invitation to meet with the head of the "Alternative Municipality" initiative.
Mahatma Gandhi is an Indian political and public figure, one of the leaders and ideologists of the movement for the independence of India from Great Britain. His philosophy of nonviolence (satyagraha) influenced the movement for peaceful change.
On the issue of Middle East policy, Gandhi and the Indian National Congress led by him supported the indivisibility of Turkey in spite of the British colonial policy, avoiding the topic of the Armenian Genocide and not supporting the Treaty of Sevres. However, later, in 2021, the Muslim minority of India raised the so-called Muslim Mopla uprising, which opposed not only the British colonialists, but also the Hindu communities, expelling and killing about 100 thousand people. ...
It should be noted that after the "velvet revolution" in Armenia, its leader, and now the head of the government, Nikol Pashinyan, often compared his political views with the worldview of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolence.
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