BONE FRACTURES IN VIDEO FILM ON MARCH 1-2 EVENTS ARE NOT PARTS OF
HUMAN BODY, DIRECTOR OF FORENSIC EXAMINATION CENTER OF HEALTH MINISTRY
CLAIMS

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. At the September 26 sitting, the
National Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Inquiry into the March 1-2 Events
in Yerevan and Their Causes discussed issues related to some scenes of
the video film on the indicated events, which was spread by the
opposition. It was mentioned that after watching the video, the
committee sent it to the RA Prosecutor General’s Office for an expert
conclusion, as well as applied to the respective bodies with some
questions. With the aim of receiving explanations to these questions,
the head of the investigation group on the indicated case Vahagn
Harutyunian, investigator Vaghinak Mkrtchian, and the director of the
Forensic Scientific Practial Center of the RA Ministry of Health Shota
Vardanian were invited to the sitting.

Tigran Karakhanian, Garik Hovakimian and Roman Grigorian – the three
young men sitting at the wall of the French embassy in Yerevan, as
shown in the video film – were also invited to attend the sitting.

"The committee wants to state once again that it has no intention to
conceal anything from anybody, it will try to answer all the questions
raised, and, naturally, the commission will give answers through the
investigation body, experts and witnesses," the head of the committee,
secretary of the NA "Republican Party of Armenia" (RPA) faction Samvel
Nikoyan said.

The first question was about the video’s scenes, in one of which there
are dark stains on the wall of the French embassy, while in another
scene these stains are absent, which, according to S. Nikoyan, some
people believe are blood stains that were later removed. This version
was flatly denied by the head of the investigation group and the young
men who did not rule out that the stains might be left by a "Molotov
cocktail" hitting the wall. V. Harutyunian said that although an expert
conclusion has not been prepared yet, he can declare on behalf of the
investigation group that the marks on the wall are not blood stains. It
was mentioned that the wall is made of basalt so it would be difficult
to remove stains, especially blood, from that wall. In his words, the
embassy employees who were questioned also said that the wall had not
been cleaned. According to the young men – witnesses, they were
detained by police on suspicion of having stolen goods from shops, then
kept for some time at the wall of the embassy and later taken to a
police station where they were questioned and set free, and throughout
that time no violence was committed by law enforcers against them or
anybody else.

As regards the accident when a UAZ car ran down a citizen, the head of
the investigation group said that the man who was run down was Gevorg
Tevanian, 27, of the village of Marmarashen (Ararat marz), who was
questioned as a witness, later a victim in the case under
investigation. The identity of the person who ran down G. Tevanian has
not been established yet because, according to eyewitnesses, before the
accident the car (a vehicle of police troops) was seized from its
driver by a 30-year-olf man who later took to flight.

The video film’s next scene, on which the committee focused, was the
one showing a jaw and other parts of a body lying in the street. S.
Vardanian gave explanations in this connection, sating that a copy of
the conclusion will be submitted to the committee within a week. It was
indicated, however, that the appropriate experts examined the video
film and "it was definitely substantiated that the bone fractures in
the video are not parts of a human body but parts of a piglet, a
piglet’s cheek-bone, and a tongue of a sheep or calf." As for the large
amount of blood and the thick layer of it in the scene, it was
explained that those who filmed "used a combination of shade and some
liquid which was quite a clever editing."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress