"NO VICTIMS RECORDED IN LIBERTY SQUARE DURING MARCH 1 COLLISION," RA PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE MAKES ASSERTIONS
Noyan Tapan
March 12, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 12, NOYAN TAPAN. No victims were recorded during the
collision between the police and demonstrators in Liberty square
on March 1 morning, and the claims circulating about an opposite
version do not correspond to reality. This statement was made by the
RA Prosecutor General’s Office on March 1.
According to the statement, the rumour about the murder of a child by
policemen is among false rumours, which "was put into circulation by
a woman, who taking shoes of a child out of garbage, has convulsively
cried that those are the shoes of the child, who died in Liberty
square, aiming at disposing the demonstrators gathered in the vicinity
of the Embassy of France to disorders." The aspersions spread by that
woman instigated to disorders and acts of violence towards policemen.
It is also mentioned that sms messages are currently being spread
among population about alleged 58 victims. As a result of the
taken measures, people spreading such misinformation have been
discovered. David Ayvazian, an inhabitant of Yerevan, is among them,
who being examined in the status of a witness confessed that he has
spread false information and has repented for the made wrong step.
The RA Prosecutor General’s Office declares that "the number of people,
who died during the mass disorders, which took place on March 1 and 2,
has not increased: 8 people have died, one of whom is a collaborator
of the police."
In general, according to the prosecutor’s office, 180 policemen and
48 citizens received body injuries on those days.