Lragir.am
Writer Vahram Tatikyan, who is on a hunger-strike in the park after Komitas met with journalists today, shared his worries and presented the reasons and the aims of the hunger-strike. Recall a dolphinarium is being constructed in this park.
Vahram Tatikyan noted that according to the project of Tamanyan, Yerevan ended in this park, where once there was an Armenian cemetery. In 1968, the park and the pantheon were created, and now they destroy the park to build a park attractions. At the scene where the dolhpinarium is being built, numerous bones are found. Tatikyan demands to return the park to the people and not to separate the pantheon from the park.
According to Vahram Tatikyan, it is already decided where and how many cafes will be built. He says that from the social and moral point, it is not right to build park attractions which vulnerable classes cannot use.
Tatikyan found out that dolphins cannot live in Armenia’s climate and after they die, that building will become an attractions place.
He said that many citizens and police officials gave him their phone numbers to call them when necessary.
Tatikyan says he is not going to give up the hunger strike until the building is dismantled. “Once I went on a hunger-strike for political prisoners, now the nature is imprisoned. Until my city is imprisoned, I am a political prisoner”, notes Vahram Tatikyan.
October 21, 2010