Human rights activist responds to remarks by Armenian parliament  speaker: Don`t blame others for your unforgivable sins

ArmInfo.Human rights activist Zhanna Aleksanyan commented on today's statements by the speaker of the Armenian parliament, Alen Simonyan,  stating " Don't blame others for your unforgivable sins." She was responding to Simonyan's assertion that "if the people of Artsakh truly wanted a homeland, they would fight for it." 

"Representatives of the Armenian authorities show us daily the  qualities that  a person in power, an official, should not possess.  What immoral, inhuman qualities he should be guided by," she noted.   In this vein, Aleksanyan pointed out that today Alen Simonyan is  trying to diminish the people of Artsakh.  "It is a well known fact  that those who belittle others, first of all, belittle themselves.  However,  in the case of Alen Simonyan, all boundaries of humiliation  have already been crossed," the human rights activist noted.  Additionally, she mentioned an incident in the Armenian parliament,  where Simonyan responded to a question from an Artsakh journalist  about when they could return to their homeland, by fanatically  repeating: "You left your homeland when it was unsafe, even though  you could have stayed and fought until the end, but you left, you  should have fought, you should have fight...". 

"I remember the stories of the people of Artsakh who miraculously  managed to escape the genocide. When the villages were filled with  Turks, defenseless women, children and old people tried to reach  Stepanakert.  They walked many kilometers through the forests, facing  violence and murder along the way.  Men fought on the border, holding  weapons in their hands, their thoughts and hearts focused on their  homes and families. And what the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan said these days is that the people of Artsakh are not in  danger! And most importantly, they know what they have done, which is  why they are going crazy. We know this too. You have betrayed Artsakh  and its people. Don't blame others for your unforgivable sins. God  did not make you worthy of a homeland, love, the right to be called a  human being," Aleksanyan concluded.