MP: No committee will be able to disclose 10 murders
At least 5-6 of the ten murders of March 1, 2008, could have been revealed, says an MP of the Armenian National Congress (HAK).
"To have several hundred security guards, stationary and moving equipment, recording apparatus and to be unable to disclose the ten murders? This is impossible," said Gagik Jhangiryan.
The HAK member suggests forming a new ad hoc committee to investigate the tragic events that took place in the Armenian capital on March 1, 2008.
"We still need to find out which of the weapons used during the mass riots had been brought from Karabakh military units," he said.
The opposition's proposal to create a new parliamentary committee to look into the 2008 deadly post-election clashes is politically motivated, says the chairman of National Assembly's Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, David Harutyunyan.
"I don't think an ad hoc committee is the best solution. We have unfortunately had a similar experience which sparked a heated political debate," he said.
The Republican MP says during the five years of his tenure he has never asked how the ten people were killed during the clashes.
"I do not think that any committee will be able to disclose the ten murders," says Hovhannes Margaryan, a representative of the former NA committee led by Samvel Nikoyan.
Republican MP Karen Chshmarityan is also against the formation of an ad hoc committee.
Attending the sitting were the relatives of the March 1 victims. The mother of Tigran Abgaryan, a conscript killed during the mass riots, says they are ready to assist Republican MPs in disclosing the murders
On the day of the clashes, while I was looking for my son, I happened to read a list of 48 wounded soldiers," he said.
The next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 3.
