NA Ad-hoc Committee on Events Occurred on 1 March meets
with three citizens receiving injuries
29-04-2009 17:35:00 | Armenia | Politics
YEREVAN, APRIL 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The NA Ad-hoc Committee on
Events Occurred on 1-2 March in Yerevan invited to its April 28
meeting three citizens who received injuries in the vicinity of
Grigor Lusavorich street and Mashtots Avenue on March 1.
According to Committee's preliminary data, all three were
injured by the Cheryomukha - 7 special means used by law
enforcement bodies. However, two of them, Vazgen Haroutiunian
and Suren Hovhannisian, stated that they do not know yet by what
arms they were injured, as medical conclusions only mention that
they received splinter injuries from fire-arms.
Ararat region resident V. Haroutiunian, who served at a
training company of Avan police troops in the period when the
events happened, was injured in his knee and was operated on. He
testified that a small group of people in masks behind
them fired with luminous bullets.
Resident of Gyumri S. Hovhannisian was going from the
Ayrarat fair to the scene of action, where he was injured in his
head. He said that before being injured he felt a smell, which,
in the opinion of committee members, is evidence that
nevertheless, the cause of injury was Cheryomukha.
The third citizen, resident of Khor Virap (Ararat region)
Khachik Davtian was among the rally participants. He was injured
in his shin by Cheryomukha and according to the medical
conclusion, received a grave injury dangerous for his life and
was operated on. K. Davtian said that before the operation he
saw at least 15-20 injured or perished, witnessed a citizen's
death from an injury in his head. At the same time he refuted the
fact of presence of a jaw on the crossroad, which was depicted
in the video material on those events.
Khachatur Davtian also said that before he had recovered,
with a plaster on his leg, some people took him to Prosecutor
General's Office and "with threats and bad language" tried to
make him write that a certain resident of Ararat with the
nickname "Marzpet" organized his participation in rallies, whom
K. Davtian does not know, thus he did not give such evidence.