"Authorities are not interested in disclosing March 1 tragedy" (video)
Head of the Heritage Party faction Ruben Hakobyan says the authorities are not interested in disclosing the March 2008 deadly clashes in Armenia. He agrees with his collague Alexander Arzumanyan who says the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and Armenian Revolutionary Federation –Dashnaktsutyun do not have the desire to reveal the tragic clashes as they were with the Republicans during the March 1 bloodshed. “Being in a coalition government does not mean that we were for concealing the facts,” says Aghvan Vardanyan, Secretary of the Dashnaktsutyun faction. “You cannot blame Dashnaktsutyun, and it is already time to turn over the chapter of March 1,” said Vardanyan. He disagrees with HAK’s position that March 1 will not be revealed as long as the acting authorities are in power. Aghvan Vardanyan thinks that the government should compensate the relatives of the ten victims. The Country of Law Party (OEK) blames the ten deaths on the ‘criminal-oligarchic elements.’ When asked to name these elements, Mher Shahgeldyan said these are people who do not have political orientation. HAK MP Gagik Jahangiryan hopes that the Republican Party will agree to create an interim committee to investigate the March 1 clashes and identify the circumstances of the murders.
