Posted on December. 19. 2020
Issue #1760, December 18-24
BY APPO JABARIAN
Executive Publisher / Managing Editor
USA Armenian Life Magazine (English-language print edition)
USA Armenian Life E-Newsletter (Electronic Distribution — e-blast)
Hye Kiank Armenian Weekly (Armenian-language print edition)
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The theme of the cover page of last week’s issue featured a photo of Armenia’s former presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan accompanied by widely discredited Catholicos Karekin II. The title stated: “SUBVERSION OF ARMENIA’S STATEHOOD BY FORMER PRESIDENTS ROBERT KOCHARYAN, SERZH SARGSYAN AND CATHOLICOS KAREKIN II.”
The theme generated mostly positive responses from wide circles of readers in the American Armenian community. However, there was also a tiny minority of readers who expressed disagreement.
USA Armenian Life editorial team’s opposition to the former kleptocratic regimes starting from First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1991-1998) to Second President Robert Kocharyan (1998-2008), to Third President Serzh Sargsyan (2008-2018) is consistent with the publication’s long-standing editorial policy.
Echoing many readers’ position on corruption and nepotism, the USA Armenian Life editorial team continues to uphold the importance of establishing a National Truth Commission to fully investigate all four regimes from 1991 till today including the current Pashinyan administration.
The key factors behind USA Armenian Life’s editorial stance are the destructive roles played by
As for Armenia’s future, Armenians should learn from France’s legendary leader General De Gaulle who was the main architect of the Fifth Republic and served as the founding president from 1958 to 1969.
The Armenian Nation, should move forward 1) to fully investigate all four regimes starting from 1991 till this date, correct the massive injustices, learn our lessons from the First Republic (1918-1920), The Second “Soviet Occupation” Republic (1920-1991), The Third Republic that is mostly marred by kleptocracy (1991-2020) and lay the foundations to The Fourth Republic (2021-to posterity).
Neither the old kleptocratic regimes nor the Sorosites or any entity or person acting as a foreign agent in Armenia should have any place in The Fourth Republic (2021-to posterity).
Armenia, Artsakh and Diaspora should clean up their act and move on as we set aside our petty differences and cooperate to uplift the twin Armenian republics and Armenian nation from survival to performance level.
Out nation deserves much better.