THE STORY – AN EMPTY BALLOON
Rubina Sargsyan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
16 Oct 2008
Armenia

Interview with the Director of the Scientific-Practical Center of
Forensic Expert Examinations Shota Vardanyan

"Mr. Vardanyan when will you introduce the final conclusion regarding
the famous video film represented by the opposition?"

"The National Assembly has submitted an application to our center,
according to which "there is an episode in the video introduced by
the press belonging to the opposition, where most probably there is
a fragment of a human jaw on the ground. Another cadre shows how a
car drives into a citizen. We would like you to answer whether or not
the forensic expert examination has recorded any trauma that was the
consequence of similar accident. If yes please send us the conclusion
of the forensic expert examination."

The thing that we have subjected to examination (tongue, chin) is
over. We have handed it over to the investigative bodies still in
October 9.

As regards complex expert examinations it is the job of two different
institutions."

"And when are you planning to introduce the conclusion of the expert
examination?"

"In the coming days. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"What did the final conclusion of the expert examination regarding
the parts of body record?"

"The announcement which I made in the National Assembly is based on
the conclusions and opinions of the government educational institutions
and certain services. Leading specialists of the republic, who didn’t
consider it a human chin and said that it is more like a pig’s chin,
signed under the announcement.

Especially because there are places where it is evident that the
chin is sawed. But they did it in a very bad way. They could hide
the thickness of the bones.

Besides that there is a certain form of teeth, which is characteristic
to animals. Based on all this the committee (of 7 members) draw a
conclusion that the represented picture was a pig’s chin. Once the
committee possesses more grounded materials it will give a clearer
conclusion. At the moment we have what we have.

As regards the tongue I can’t imagine how can a human being have such
a big tongue? No doubt it was animal’s tongue. It was most probably a
tongue of a ruminant. In my view both the operators and the authors
of the articles have eaten animal’s tongue and if they haven’t seen
their own tongue they can look at it in the mirror and compare.

The conclusions are ready and during the coming days we will send
them to the National Assembly. But because they have two requirements
we will wait until we have the conclusion regarding their second
requirement and only after it will we send the complex conclusion.

By the way we have received a note from the Ministry of Health where
the head of NA staff appeals to the head of the government staff,
to answer certain questions. Zaruhy Postanjyan is the author of
those questions.

One of the questions is about the video represented by the National
Assembly. Postanjyan is interested in whose chin and whose brain was
on the ground, who was that person and was he included in the list
of the victims?

Why didn’t they take to expert examination? These operators could
also take those brains and pieces of bones. And if those pieces exist,
where are the other ones?

And finally there are dead bodies and live people who must give the
place of that "damaged" person. A person with that chin couldn’t live.

But we don’t have similar cases of damage neither among dead bodies
nor among live people. Isn’t it strange?

"And isn’t it strange that only recently did they decide to show
those videos?"

"I would like to have the answer to that question. Why didn’t they show
the video 6-7 months back? After all if there is a missing individual,
where is he, where are his relatives. Don’t you think that all this
story is an empty balloon?"