YEREVAN. – The governments are to blame for all wars and massacres occurring in the modern world, Aurora Prize laureate Tom Catena said in his address at Tumo Creative Technologies Center in Yerevan on Monday.

Answering the question of one of the students of the center whose ancestors survived the Genocide, Tom Catena noted that there are many countries where the governments are killing their own citizens.

Sudan, where the doctor works, is one of these countries. In recent years, Sudan has not been fighting against other countries, but civil wars in Sudan claimed two million lives. Sudan could be a rich country, but people live in extreme poverty there, while a small group of elite is rich.

Another example of such a country, according to Catena, is Congo, where “the government is actively killing its own citizens.” One of the doctor's colleagues was also recently killed in Congo. In this country, according to the doctor, the government is only interested in own enrichment. They do not care about ordinary people, and therefore the government spends all the money on itself, not on public health or other needs of the country.

Who can stop wars, massacres and murders in such countries?  Catena believes the powers like the US, Britain, China and Japan have the power and opportunity to influence the situation in other countries, but these countries are neither willing, nor have political will to do it. The governments of great powers are concerned over their own problems only: they are not interested in people living, for example, in the mountains of Sudan.

On the other hand, Uganda, another poor country in Africa, has done much to help others. Although this did not foreshow any benefit, Uganda sheltered many refugees from Sudan and made for this country even more than the above-mentioned powers.