Gagik Jhangiryan: “March 1 is locked”
Illegal armed groups opened fire on demonstrators on March 1, 2008, says Gagik Jhangiryan, a senior representative of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK).
"The bullets found in the victims' bodies do not match the firearms which, according to the police, were used during the clashes between the demonstrators and riot police in downtown Yerevan on March 1 and 2," he said citing the final report of the Special Investigation Service.
The coordinator of the HAK Committee on State and Legal Affaires says the fact-finding group looking into the March 1 tragic events has issued two reports, but the SIS has not referred to either of them in its final report.
The SIS said that by a "strange coincidence," traces were found on the three bullets which had possibly emerged through the contact with solid objects.
"Our respectful colleagues from the SIS simply want to say that no point-blank shot was fired at the demonstrators," the HAK representative said adding that no one has yet been held accountable for the tragic clashes.
"I do not know any person who has been brought to court for injuring a civilian on March 1. The case is put under legal and political lock," Gagik Jhangiryan concluded.
