OLIGARCHES TRY TO DISTRACT MEDIA’S ATTENTION FROM VERSION OF THEIR "SKINHEADS" COMPLICITY IN MARCH 1 MURDERS, HMAYAK HOVHANNISIAN SAYS
NOYAN TAPAN
JU LY 9
Lately Armenian oligarches have gathered and "fell to thinking" how
to distract attention of media from the rumors, according to which,
the murders committed during the March 1 events have been done
by their skinheads. Stating this at the July 9 discussion, Hmayak
Hovhannisian, the Chairman of the Union of Political Scientists of
Armenia, said that the version that those committing the murders are
the bodyguards of oligarches standing close to the authorities is one
of the six versions in circulation after March 1. According to him,
first President Levon Ter-Petrosian had also touched upon that version
in his speech at the June 28 raly in Gyumri.
Vardan Grigorian, the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Path party,
said that during the March 1 events, before the eyes of hundreds of
people, policemen armed with guns some "thick-headed skinheads," who
laid the arms on their shoulders and put a jacket above it. All that,
according to V. Grigorian, is also clearly seen in the video recording
of the March 1 events. According to him, that fact is disregarded by
both journalists and law enforcement bodies, while during the state
of emergency, as well as now television "washes people’s brain" with
false information. "Besides, during the February rallies we constantly
sowed respect for law enforcers among the people, therefore it is
impossible that demonstrants use violence to policemen or soldiers,"
the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Path party, said.