Activists call for older generation’s efforts to assist youth.

Amid the environmental activists' campaign to protect Yerevan’s Mashtots Park from illegal constructions, members of Sardarapat Movement, Zhirayr Sefilyan and Tigran Khzmalyan, and politician Manvel Sargsyan have called for the older generation’s efforts to assist the youth.

In a statement, the activists note that many of the older generation representatives, who fought for the independence of Armenia and the freedom of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), preferred to remain in the shadow after their struggle, leaving the country to “opportunistic officials” who created what they called the criminal oligarchic regime endangering the nation’s future.

“The older generation is obliged to admit that their errors and omissions too, are among the major causes of the current crises resulting from an insufficient perception of the general and the absence of an optimal and effective government system - factors that enabled the criminal-oligarchic regime to develop indifference and an environment of time-serving, thus contributing to impunity and plunder,” reads the statement.

The activists say that they younger generation has shouldered the burden of overcoming those crises and their consequences (Kajaran mines, Teghut forest, Mashtots Park).

“The youth is certainly strong and brave, competent and dynamic; however, the older generation’s experience, knowledge and skills are extremely important for bringing the struggle to a triumphant end with joint efforts. Unfortunately there are very few older people next to the young.

So, we call upon the senior generation to wake up for a struggle. We call for supporting the enlightened freedom-loving youth, and sharing the burden of the struggle, as well as correcting the mistakes and omissions of the past to bring the process of state-building and the creative development of the nation to a successful end,” they say.