Who ordered to shoot my son?
How many lines have been added to my son's case?
Ruzanna Khacahtryan, the mother of March 1 victim Tigran Abgaryan, addressed the question to Vahagn Harutyunyan, a senior investigator of the Special Investigation Service and the head of the Special Investigative Group looking into the events of March 1.
"And when did you ask me the question?" Vahagn Harutyunyan said in reply.
The court of common jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts today heard Mrs. Khacahtryan's complaint challenging the inactivity of Prosecutor General's Office and Special Investigation Service.
In his speech Advocate Artak Zeinalyan noted that a fundamental human right, the right to life, had been violated.
"The state is responsible for the protection of the right," said the advocate.
Tigran Abgaryan, 19-year-old military conscript, was on the line of duty when thousands of protesters clashed with police in Yerevan on March 1. Tigran sustained injuries in the neck on Leo street and died in hospital of gunshot wounds.
"To date, no one has been made accountable for his death. Nor have the witnesses been called to an examination," announced the advocate.
Vahagn Harutyunyan found Mr. Zeynalyan's statement unfounded and rejected it saying the preliminary investigation was still underway.
Tigran's mother was crying during the whole sitting.
"I cannot restrain my tears. My son was killed neither by Turks nor on the battlefield. An action was to have been filed against Robert Kocahryan immediately after the clashes. Kocharyan took the troops to the city centre and ordered them to shoot demonstrators. How could they order servicemen to open fire at people?" said Mrs. Khachatryan.
She wants to know who gave the order of shooting.
"It is all the same to me who that person is-Kocahryan, Serzh Sargsyan or someone else... Let them come to the court and plead guilty of my son's murder."
The next sitting is scheduled for May 7.
