WHY ARE THEY AFRAID OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS?
ARTHUR HOVHANNISYAN

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
04 Oct 2008
Armenia

As claimed by the co-thinkers of L. Ter-Petrosyan, the number of the
people killed as a result of the March 1-2 incidents exceeds the data
presented in official reports. Over the recent period, they circulated
such kind of unfounded rumors through almost all the possible media.

In witness of their statements, they have now released a video disc
prepared by the so-called `Public Committee Investigating the March 1
Incidents’. The disc contains films showing different parts of body
(jaws, tongues and cheekbones) `found’ in the vicinity of the `Fish
Store’, i.e. material evidence on the existence of the 11th victim.

Naturally, it was necessary to send the video disc for expert
examination. And that was what the relevant bodies did. They carried
out the examination and found out that the details shown in the films
were not parts of a human body.

During the September 26 session of the NA Interim Committee
investigating the March 1-2 incidents and their causes, Shota
Vardanyan, Head of the Scientific-Practical Centre of Forensic Medicine
of the RA Ministry of Health, gave an official report as to what had
been found out as a result of the expert examination carried out with
the participation of the best specialists of the republic.

According to Sh. Vardanyan,
the expert examination helped find out that
`the given bone fragments are not human; they belonged to a piglet. As
to the tongue, it belonged either to a sheep or a calf, but not to a
human being. The same can be said about the jaw; facial bones, in
general, are not so thick, whereas that thickness is vividly seen on
the picture. And the same is true for the structure of the teeth. Those
are stemmed teeth i.e. six teeth with two stems, which are peculiar to
pigs only.’

If some of L. Ter-Petrosyan’s co-thinkers and the media supporting the
Armenian pan-National Movement considered the results of the expert
examination false and not corresponding to the reality, i.e. an attempt
of concealing the crime committed, they should have made claims for
conducting a new expert examination with the participation of
independent international experts. Whereas we didn’t hear or see any of
them make any claim of the kind. What we saw instead was false
statements becoming more and more widespread and defamatory
publications about the NA Committee and Sh. Vardanyan.

Let’s note that the new expert examination will provide answers to many
questions or at least help find out who or which of the parties makes
false statements. Despite the absence of the jaw and the other parts of
body, the up-to-date computer technologies, the methodology of
conducting examinations and the relevant professional background20make
it possible to find out whether those parts of body belong to a human
or some animals.

Unfortunately, instead of assisting the NA Interim Committee in
revealing the truth and making claims for a new expert examination with
the involvement of independent international experts, the relevant
European structures and officials have, politely speaking, chosen a
strange mode of action.

Their unconstitutional and illegal demands for releasing the detainees
accused of certain publicly dangerous crimes and terminating the
prosecution against the individuals who weren’t directly involved in
the acts of violence are, as a matter of fact, undisguised attempts of
interfering in the inquest, prosecution and generally, the internal
affairs of a sovereign state.

We believe it’s high time the Armenian authorities made relevant
statements on the impermissibility of such actions.

The above-mentioned attempts are a striking evidence of an interested
and impartial attitude as well as a confirmation of the hypothesis that
the March 1-2 incidents were an attempt of staging a colored
revolution, with the visible `ears’ of the west lying behind.