One of the reasons of the uprising in Karabakh was that the Armenians wanted to speak and to listen to Armenian in their daily life, said former commander of Karabakh’s self-defense forces Arkady Karapetyan, who has also joined We are Against Opening the Foreign-Language Schools initiative.
“It can be said that one of the reasons of initiating the movement in Karabakh was that we wanted to speak Armenian, to listen to Armenian, we wanted the radio to be in Armenian, the TV to be in Armenian, that there was an Armenian culture, and there is no culture without language,” Karapetyan told a press conference today.
What worries the former commander is the re-opening of foreign-language schools as he is sure that the language is directly linked to a country’s national security.
“It is a big problem in our army, for example. In what language will the orders be given and done. That is to say, if half of the army does not speak Armenian, and the other half does not speak Russian, then how will they fight, how they will understand each other?” said Karapetyan.
According to him the draft on foreign-language schools will have very bad consequences, should it be adopted.
“Whether it is done on purpose or not, it is wrong, and a mistake should be corrected,” said Karapetyan.
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