"Everything is done to forget the ten victims"
"The investigation is underway, I have nothing else to add," Vahagn Harutiunyan, a senior official at Armenia's Special Investigative Service (SIS) leading the inquiry into the March 1 events, said in connection with the case of ten victims.
Under an April 1 decision of Judge Mnatsakan Martirorian, the case of ten victims, attached to the case of seven, was remitted for further inquiry. For a month the investigating body has given no information to the victims' relatives. Nor has it invited them to an interrogation.
"If the investigating body has done nothing in a year, what can it do in a month?" Sargis Qloyan, the father of March 1 victim Gor Qloyan, said to A1+.
Sargis Qloyan is convinced that the case has been remitted to the investigating body simply to slur over the facts.
"I am more than convinced that the murders of our sons won't be revealed by these authorities as they are not going to reveal a crime they are accomplices of. If they really cared for the murders, the policemen shooting dead our children with Cheryomukha 7 wouldn't continue serving in Armenian Interior Forces and get salary from these authorities. The authorities do their best for the public to forget the ten victims.
Tigran Khachatryan's mother Alla Hovhannisyan also thinks the murders will not be disclosed by the acting authorities.
"I am outraged. The investigating body hasn't invited us. Moreover, the activity of the fact-finding group has been terminated which I think took the right path," she says.
Mrs. Hovhannisyan is convinced that the case was remitted to the investigating body as the authorities didn't want their misdeeds to be uncovered during the trial on the "case of seven."
"I long for a government overthrow in Armenia as the murders of our sons will be disclosed only after a change of power."
Tigran Abgaryan's father, Edik Abgaryan, has no news from the investigating body either.
"We haven't heard anything from the body. They don't need us," says the victim's father.
The victims' relatives are going to appeal to the Human Rights Defender.
