WHO ORDERED TO SHOOT MY SON?

A1Plus.am
May 03, 2010

How many lines have been added to my son’s case?

Ruzanna Khacahtryan, the mother of March 1 victim Tigran Abgaryan,
addressed the question to Vahagn Harutyunyan, a senior investigator
of the Special Investigation Service and the head of the Special
Investigative Group looking into the events of March 1.

"And when did you ask me the question?" Vahagn Harutyunyan said
in reply.

The court of common jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts
today heard Mrs. Khacahtryan’s complaint challenging the inactivity
of Prosecutor General’s Office and Special Investigation Service.

In his speech Advocate Artak Zeinalyan noted that a fundamental human
right, the right to life, had been violated.

"The state is responsible for the protection of the right," said
the advocate.

Tigran Abgaryan, 19-year-old military conscript, was on the line of
duty when thousands of protesters clashed with police in Yerevan on
March 1. Tigran sustained injuries in the neck on Leo street and died
in hospital of gunshot wounds.

"To date, no one has been made accountable for his death. Nor have
the witnesses been called to an examination," announced the advocate.

Vahagn Harutyunyan found Mr. Zeynalyan’s statement unfounded and
rejected it saying the preliminary investigation was still underway.

Tigran’s mother was crying during the whole sitting. "I cannot restrain
my tears. My son was killed neither by Turks nor on the battlefield. An
action was to have been filed against Robert Kocahryan immediately
after the clashes. Kocharyan took the troops to the city centre and
ordered them to shoot demonstrators. How could they order servicemen
to open fire at people?" said Mrs. Khachatryan.

She wants to know who gave the order of shooting.

"It is all the same to me who that person is-Kocahryan, Serzh Sargsyan
or someone else… Let them come to the court and plead guilty of my
son’s murder."

The next sitting is scheduled for May 7.