No Doubt the Reported Death Scene is False

SUZAN SIMONYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 13:20:27 – 14/05/2011

The parents of the recruit Tigran Ohanjanyan who died 4 years ago in
one of the military units of Vardenis have gone on protest in front of
the government since 2008. At that time there were 9 families who lost
their sons during military service at peace. Now the parents of 4
servicemen continue to protest, the others have lost hope.

Tigran’s father tells they were informed that their son was killed by
electric current. This caused the first doubt because he says his son
was afraid of electricity, he was even afraid to plug in the iron.
Before the autopsy he had seen bruises and injuries on Tigran’s
temple, chin, ears, hands which the forensic experts denied.
Afterwards the behavior of detectives, prosecutor, all the experts
convinced him that his son’s death was caused by beating. Especially
that the room where he reportedly died was the room of the bodyguards
of the deputy chief of the general staff of the army Haykaz
Baghmanyan.

The bodyguards were not interrogated, despite his requests. Three
years have passed, and it is unknown if there was current in the wires
which Tigran touched, it is not known where his body was found. The
data on the time of death are also controversial.

Moreover, 6 pages, transcripts of conversations by mobile telephones,
the postmortem photographs of Tigran, 19, taken during the autopsy are
missing. Two forensic reports note two different sizes of the injury
on the neck. The piece of wire is missing in one of the reports, and
the other report notes that the wire is whole and has not been cut.

The military prosecutor of Sevan charged the chief of the radio
station and a servicemen for carelessness but the court of first
instance acquitted these two.

There was a breakthrough in these three years after their talk to
Serzh Sargsyan. He said he would instruct the new military prosecutor
to attend to Tigran’s case. Gevorg Kostanyan talked to Tigran’s
parents for 4 hours and a new forensic examination was scheduled. The
same experts had conducted the first examination, and they repeated
their conclusion. They signed under the same text, whereas each expert
should have drawn their own conclusion. Attorney Seda Safaryan says at
the moment there is nothing to allow hoping for revelation of the
case. The only hope of the parents is the words of Gevorg Kostanyan
after he visited the military unit. `No doubt the reported death scene
was false.’ Tigran Ohanjanyan’s parents have filed a suit against the
first detective Gnel Manukyan but their application has not been
accepted.