SAMVEL NIKOYAN SENDS OFFICIAL LETTER TO RA POLICE HEAD AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATION SERVICE

Noyan Tapan

Jan 26, 2009

YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, NOYANM TAPAN. Samvel Nikoyan, the chairman of
the RA National Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Inquiry into March 1-2
Events in Yerevan and their Reasons, has sent an official letter to
Vahagn Harutyunian, the head of the group investigating this case, with
a petition to organize a forensic examination at the Criminological
Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs "in order to find
out from which carabines, which have been seized in the case related to
the fragments of "Cheryomukha 7" cartridges removed from the bodies of
the killed and wounded persons, shots were fired". S. Nikoyan requested
to inform the Committee about the results of the forensic examination.

The Committee’s chairman also told NT correspondent that he has
sent another letter to the head of the RA Police Alik Sargsyan with
the request to present information about when the police received
"Cheryomukha 7" cartridges with gas grenades (made in 1986 and
1989) used during the March 1-2 events and how many cartridges were
received. S. Nikoyan also asked the RA police head to inform him
whether any commission has tested the fitness of this special weapon
(kept in the RA police’s arsenal) for use, and if so, to present the
results of this test to him.