Report to be covered-up?
Former members of the fact-finding group investigating the events of March 1 Andranik Kocharyan and Seda Safaryan doubt that the final report of the NA ad hoc committee leading an investigation into the events of March 1 will be impartial and will include all facts relating to the results of the studies.
"We still don't know who's writing the report , who the experts are and what the basis for their facts is," said Andranik Kocharyan at the "Hayatsk" club today. Former members of the fact-finding group presented journalists with the fourth report that particularly referred to the creation and involvement of armed groups not foreseen by the law during the events of March 1.
The report is the document provided to the fact-finding members by the Armenian National Congress on December 15, 2008. According to that document, a number of high-ranking officials, including Vache Beglaryan, Gagik Tsarukyan, Surik Khachatryan, Levon Sargsyan, Gagik Beglaryan, Hovik Abrahamyan, Arakel Movsisyan, Mher Sedrakyan and Samvel Alexanyan, were given 950 military costumes and 140 hats from the storage room of the RA Defense Ministry's guard service. According to information of the Congress, the clothes were foreseen for motivating provocative actions. The report also states the site of the storage room and the name of the head of the material service that checked out the clothes-Harut Barseghyan.
After recording the information, the fact-finding group decided to find the facts and left for the storage room. In order to avoid cover-up, Andranik Kocharyan said that he would like to leave for the site in the car. The mission failed because the group was prohibited from entering the military unit.
"We showed head of the service, colonel Norik Yolchyan the RA President's decree on creatoin of the fact-finding group, but he refused to look at it, saying that other things must be checked," said Andranik Kocharyan who believes that this was an act aimed at sealing up the truth.
Although the members sent the report to the NA ad hoc committee on Monday, they are not sure if the committee is leading a general investigation into the most important facts and if it will include them in the final report.
"Before that, we had presented reports on marksmen, people dressed in military uniforms on Melik-Adamyan Street and the death of Tigran Abgaryan, but the committee didn't conduct a thorough investigation," said Seda Safaryan.
