NA AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON EVENTS OCCURRED ON 1 MARCH MEETS WITH THREE CITIZENS RECEIVING INJURIES

NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 29, 2009
YEREVAN

The NA Ad-hoc Committee on Events Occurred on 1-2 March in Yerevan
invited to its April 28 meeting three citizens who received injuries
in the vicinity of Grigor Lusavorich street and Mashtots Avenue on
March 1.

According to Committee’s preliminary data, all three were injured
by the Cheryomukha – 7 special means used by law enforcement
bodies. However, two of them, Vazgen Haroutiunian and Suren
Hovhannisian, stated that they do not know yet by what arms they
were injured, as medical conclusions only mention that they received
splinter injuries from fire-arms.

Ararat region resident V. Haroutiunian, who served at a training
company of Avan police troops in the period when the events happened,
was injured in his knee and was operated on. He testified that a
small group of people in masks behind them fired with luminous bullets.

Resident of Gyumri S. Hovhannisian was going from the Ayrarat fair
to the scene of action, where he was injured in his head. He said
that before being injured he felt a smell, which, in the opinion of
committee members, is evidence that nevertheless, the cause of injury
was Cheryomukha.

The third citizen, resident of Khor Virap (Ararat region) Khachik
Davtian was among the rally participants. He was injured in his shin by
Cheryomukha and according to the medical conclusion, received a grave
injury dangerous for his life and was operated on. K. Davtian said
that before the operation he saw at least 15-20 injured or perished,
witnessed a citizen’s death from an injury in his head. At the same
time he refuted the fact of presence of a jaw on the crossroad,
which was depicted in the video material on those events.

Khachatur Davtian also said that before he had recovered, with a
plaster on his leg, some people took him to Prosecutor General’s Office
and "with threats and bad language" tried to make him write that a
certain resident of Ararat with the nickname "Marzpet" organized his
participation in rallies, whom K. Davtian does not know, thus he did
not give such evidence.