Granting status of state ideology to Real Armenia basis for  persecution of `pro-history` ones - opinion 

ArmInfo.  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continues his spiritual, cultural, ideological, cognitive, informational, and psychological warfare  against the Armenian people and Armenia, according to Hrachya  Arzumanyan, a doctor of political science, candidate of technical  sciences, and expert on military and national security issues.

The expert stated that this is further evidenced by the draft law,  which aims to grant the "Real Armenia" ideology state status. "The  types of wars listed above can be expanded, and the most important  thing is to recognize and accept that this is war. Pashinyan is  waging a war against the Armenian people to maintain power, relying  on the support of hostile centers of power.

Previous campaigns in this war are fresh in our memories. We can  recall the Artsakh campaign, when Pashinyan single-handedly, without  even a parliamentary mandate, renounced Artsakh and the Artsakh  heritage of the Armenian people, seeking to turn the Artsakh  Armenians, who had survived the Medz Yeghern, into enemies of  Armenian society," he noted.

According to him, then came the campaign of rejecting Western Armenia  and Historical Armenia and the subsequent attack on Ararat, which  provoked a harsh reaction in society. The expert noted that, without  giving Armenian society time to recover, a new attack and aggression  followed, this time against the Armenian Apostolic Church, as a  religious institution and the cornerstone of Armenian identity. Once  again, the harsh reaction of the Armenian people forced the prime  minister to temporarily retreat and remain silent.

"And now comes a new campaign and attack on Ararat, and the intention  to grant the surrogate ideology of 'Real Armenia' the status of a  state ideology protected by law. A law that will enshrine in the  legislative space the demand that Armenian society renounce its  history, Ararat, and the Mets Yeghern-renounce Historical Armenia and  its collective memory, and become mankurts," Arzumanyan continued.

He also noted that one can speak of the traditional behavior of  totalitarian and authoritarian regimes that grant state ideology the  status of law-Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, Juche, and others.

"The authoritarian leader and his entourage (the top  military-political leadership) strive to concentrate all power in  their hands, enshrining it in the legal and ideological realm, and  Pashinyan has been observed engaging in such behavior on numerous  occasions. There's no point in recalling how many times he declared  himself the government and authority in Armenia, how many times he  acted outside the constitutional framework, unilaterally, without  even notifying parliament, the executive, and the judiciary.

Therefore, granting "Real Armenia" the status of state ideology in  the legislative realm will create legal grounds for persecuting  members of Armenian society who refuse to renounce Ararat, the  Armenian Apostolic Church, Historical Armenia, the memory of the Mets  Yeghern, and so on," Arzumanyan asserted.

The expert noted that Pashinyan is resorting to waging war within the  legal realm (lawfare), expanding the list of forms of warfare waged  against the Armenian people. He believes that the Prime Minister's  discussion of "legitimacy" is explained in this context, and that  Pashinyan and his ruling team genuinely seem to fail to understand  the difference between the terms "legitimacy" and "legality."

"The Prime Minister of Armenia has no legitimate right to speak as a  national leader. He can speak on behalf of the clear minority of the  Republic of Armenia's population who support him, but not the  Armenian people, the majority of whom live outside the borders of the  Armenian state.  In the current situation, each of us must make the  choice I wrote about recently: are you for Pashinyan and Real  Armenia, or for Ararat, the Armenian Apostolic Church, Historical  Armenia-the right to historical memory and the memory of the Meds  Yeghern? We must answer-each and everyone together, and for starters,  we can go and vote for the legislative initiative," Arzumanyan  concluded.