I'M AFRAID MY MOTHER WILL BE KILLED EITHER

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On March 1, 2008, 23-year-old Tigran Khachatrian came home and announced he was going downtown, to Myasnikian monument, as innocent people were being beaten there at that moment.

“I told him not to go there as it was dangerous. He might be beaten or arrested. I couldn't imagine that a person could be killed for attending a meeting,” Tigran's mother Alla Hovhannissian told us.

Tigran's mother couldn’t stop her son on that day.

“I will go there anyway,” Tigran said to his mother.

Tigran left home at 4 p.m. He spent several hours in neighbouring Avan district and then went to Myasnikian monument. “We hadn’t called him before 8:05 p.m. We called him at 8:30 p.m. after my elder son returned home, but there was no answer. Meanwhile his girlfriend managed to talk to him on the mobile. She asked him to get away from that area as she was worried, but Tigran laughed and switched off the mobile”.

Tigran’s mother called her acquaintances of the Pan-National Movement. They told her there was no need to worry. The rally was peaceful. Simply the police chained the place so that no one could leave the area.

Later in the day Mrs. Hovhannissian called her husband and asked him to look for their son.

“My husband had looked for him till late at night. At about 2 a.m., he saw an ambulance in front of a morgue in Heratsi Street. He immediately had a foreboding. He went up and asked: “Aren’t there any victims?” The doctor showed the dead body. Getting assured that the victim wasn’t Tigran my husband inquired whether there were any others. The doctor showed three more victims. My husband saw our son entirely in blood,” Tigran’s mother told us in tears.

The parents were told that their son had been killed at about 9:15-9:30 near a traffic light stand in Leo Street. He died of a bullet shot in the head.

“My only consolation is that my son hadn’t been tortured, he died at once,” said Mrs. Hovhannissian.

Though Tigran died of a bullet shot which was later confirmed by the Special Investigation Service, the death-certificate states, “Tigran Hovhannissian died of cerebrum function disorder. There isn’t a word about a bullet.

Mrs. Hovhannissian is confident that Tigran’s friends were next to him at that tragic moment, but today she isn’t trying to find them. “I know he wasn’t alone but people are afraid to tell the truth about that nightmare. I am sure that one day those people will show up and tell everything.”

Tigran Khachatrian was born in 1985.