"THEY DETERMINE MARRIAGES IN THE RULING CLIQUE"

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03:00 pm | September 28, 2009 | Politics

Leader of the New Times Party (NZhK) Aram Karapetian today issued a
report on the deadly clashes of March 1-2, 2008.

Mr. Karapetian is convinced that on March 1, the police opened fire at
peaceful demonstrators by the order of ex President Robert Kocharian.

"I don’t understand when they say the police took the decision on
the spot, when in reality, all decisions in Armenia are made by
Robert Kocahrian and Serzh Sargsyan. They even decide the marriages
in the ruling clique. Can an ordinary policeman give an order of
shooting?" says Aram Karapetian.

The NZhK Leader is going to send his report to the PACE and Monitoring
Committee.

"The parliamentary interim commission looking into the March 1-2
events simply confirmed the official hypothesis in its report,"
says Aram Karapetian.

"The authorities’ statements that they did their best to make Levon
Ter-Petrosian come to the Statue of Miasnikyan to conciliate the
demonstrators are groundless. They needn’t have sent the Catholicos
to Ter-Petrosian’s place. The authorities realized that if Levon
Ter-Petrosian appeared on the spot and led the demonstrators to
Liberty Square, they would have to quit power the following day."

Aram Karapetian thinks that the commission’s report was drawn up in the
presidential residence and Prosecutor’s Office and later distributed
to the commission members.

"They were forced to sign the report or to express a special opinion
on it. It was a mere political decision," added Mr. Karapetian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress