ARMEN HARUTYUNYAN: INTERIM COMMITTEE SUPPORTS PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.09.2009 14:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In its repots, Interim Parliamentary Committee’s
investigating March 1, 2008 incident adopted a condescending approach
to Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan told a news
conference in Yerevan. "Committee members mostly criticize police,
making slight hints at special investigative service and keeping
silent about Prosecutor’s Office," he said. Committee, according to
him, omitted to reveal investigators’ wrongdoings, particularly the
letter on alienating Myasnik Malkhasyan. Onbudsman also stressed that
document did not firmly criticize 10 individuals’ death. "Its principal
disadvantage is that it contains no specific remark," he said.

Touching upon the positive aspects, Harutyunyan said the document
reflected all principal facts such as existence of weapons and cases
of beating individuals.

"For all its partiality, the report contains certain clauses which are
quite objective," he said, adding that committee accounted for last
year’s disorder by systemic and institutional factors, i.e. extreme
centralization of power and selected social groups. Authorities are
the chief culprit, and responsibility for making decision lies upon
them, Ombudsman finds.