ACCORDING TO LEVON TER-PETROSIAN’S AFFIRMATION, OPPOSITION HAS ESTABLISHED IDENTITY OF POLICEMEN FIRING AT PEACEFUL DEMONSTRANTS
NOYAN TAPAN
Dec 22, 2008
YEREVAN
According to opposition’s own investigation of the March 1 events,
the opposition has established the identity of policemen firing at
peaceful demonstrants. First RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian stated
at the December 21 conference of the Armenian National Congress (ANC).
In his words, as a result of the investigation it was also found
out that five high-ranking officials and four oligarches are indeed
responsible for those events, who coordinated the actions of a group
consisting of 950 people. The latters set cars on fire and robbed
shops. The ex-President said that the ANC central office conveyed all
these data to Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights
Thomas Hammarberg and to some of the Ambassadors accredited in Armenia.
L. Ter-Petrosian said that the greatest achievement was that the
national movement managed to prove the groundlessness of the version
put forward by the authorities that clashes between policemen and
demonstrants were provoked by the opposition. And for the Armenian
public primordially not believing that version the March 1 crime was a
terrible slaughter organized by country’s leaders. The international
community also started getting convinced of it under the pressure of
the existing facts.
L. Ter-Petrosian drew attention to the fact that so far no opposition
representative has been accused of carrying arms, using grenades,
setting cars on fire or robbing shops. In his words, those killing
the ten persons have not been disclosed yet. While, the very issue
should have been primary for law enforcement bodies.
L. Ter-Petrosian assured that the March 1 investigation will be
continued, and in case the situation changes everybody really
responsible for these crimes will be brought to the court. He also
stated that opposition’s mass actions of protest can be resumed at
any time.