PACE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ARMENIA SAYS 28 WERE KILLED IN POST-ELECTION EVENTS IN THE COUNTRY
Azeri Press Agency
April 14 2008
Azerbaijan
Strasbourg-APA. The presidential elections in Armenia have been
discussed in the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE), APA reports.
Special rapporteur on Armenia John Prescott said the investigations
showed that 28 people had been killed in the confrontations during
Armenian presidential elections, not 8 as it had been reported
before. 8 of them died in the squares, 20 later in hospitals. John
Prescott also said that military equipment, grenades had been used
against the demonstrators.
The Bureau passed a decision to raise the events in Armenia in the
special discussion at the plenary session of PACE on April 17. During
the discussions the parliamentarians offered to impose sanctions on
Armenia, and even freeze Armenia’s voting right in PACE. The decision
on Armenia will be made in PACE’s plenary session.