Armenian Ombudsman: investigation of disorders in Yerevan has thousand questions

One of these days, they plan to extend the authorities of the temporary parliamentary commission in charge of investigating the tragic consequences of disorders in Yerevan on last March 1-2. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia and a member of the commission.

On Friday, February 13, another sitting of the commission took place in Yerevan; Vaag Arutyunyan, inspector on especially important cases of the Special Investigatory Service and head of the investigatory group on the criminal case about mass disorders, announced the conclusion of the expert-criminalistic centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. According to the document, Russian experts have established that the gas grenades "Cheryomukha-7", used during the events on March 1-2, 2008, were not identifications as matching the weapons, from which they were launched. A similar conclusion was made by Armenian experts, who held their examination in November, 2008.

"The problem is that the three casualties of those tragic events were in the fire line of four policemen," Armen Arutyunyan has explained. "The commission had addressed Russian experts asking them to establish who of these four policemen had opened the fatal fire. However, the Russian experts made a conclusion that now it is not possible to identify the used special means."

At the same time Mr Arutyunyan has doubted the conclusions of Russian experts. "I have no trust in these examinations," he has explained. "I just can't believe that three persons were killed in the fire line of four policemen, and it's impossible to establish who of them had killed them."