Heading to Hunting in Armenia

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The below article was published in the daily newsletter " Haykakan

Jamanak " (Armenian Times) on 24 August, 06.

 

Translated from armenian:

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The chairman of " Flourishing Armenia " party Gagik Tsarukyan purchased

well-known hunting shop located on Khorenatsi str in central Yerevan

and amplified with a wide range of new assortment. This became known

some days ago, after appearance of advertisement on television. But

one detail was missing in the advertisement: the president of Armenia

Robert Kocharyan was not participating in the opening ceremony of the

hunting shop, which was quite strange taking into account the

existing inner political situation in the country. But the president,

anyway, visited the newly opened shop yesterday evening and spent

there about 40 minutes. It is unknown what he was doing there and

what he was interested in, as the mass media was not invited to join

the president. But we will not be mistaken stating that Kocharyan was

interested in hunting weapons. As it is known, he is fond of hunting,

though the way how he hunts can be hardly named hunting. Kocharyan

likes to go hunting on helicopter. With a machine-gun in hands he

sits by the opened door of the chopper and aims the future victim.

When the escaping animal is found, the chopper lowers and the animal

has no other choice but to feel the " pleasure " of dying from the

bullets shot by the president of Armenia. Meeting a group of animals

is much better. People say one president's burst from machine-gun can

make the whole group feel the above mentioned " pleasure " . It's hard

to say of course what the pleasure of such kind of hunting is, when

there is no need to provide the family with food for several weeks or

a will to sell as much meat as possible. In case such kind of hunting

helps to oppose serious threats, which Armenia faces today, we may

connive at it.

The hunting season will soon start in Armenia. This is said

conditionally of course as hunting is forbidden in Armenia and there

are almost no other animals to hunt except some rabbits and birds.

But the chopper, optical aim, a machine-gun and lack of any ban will

probably help Kocharyan to find the " happy " deer or goat, ready to

sacrifice itself for struggle with outer and inner threats faced by

Armenia nowadays.

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