"Robert Kocahryan is the godfather of March 1"

Opposition Heritage faction MP Armen Martirosian today demanded Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian's resignation for concealing the perpetrators of March 1 deadly clashes. "On March 1 I said there were provocateurs among demonstrators. Why didn't the NA Ad-Hoc Commission looking into the March 1-2 events refer to it in its final report?" Armen Martirosian asked the Commission Chair and added». The answer is simple: the Prosecutor's Office did not order the Commission to disclose and liquidate the provocateurs."
Then, the Heritage MP raised rhetoric questions: "What was the use of an armoured car in the capital? Were they liberating the city from enemies? What were the Defence Ministry troops doing at the square?"
"Robert Kocahryan is the godfather of the March 1 carnage and he must shoulder full responsibility for the deadly clashes," announced freelance parliamentarian Victor Dallakian. "Starting from 1991, presidential elections in Armenia ended in cataclysms and tragedies. History shows that power change is impossible in Armenia through elections. The only attempt to change power through elections failed in 1999 and ended with the parliamentary carnage of October 27."
"President's chair is mined in Armenia," announced the deputy and suggested changing the constitutional order making Armenia a parliamentary country with a president having symbolic powers.
Commission member and leader of the National Concord Party Aram Harutiunian said March 1 could have been averted through the All-Armenian Catholicos. "On March 1 the Catholicos was to go and speak to people instead of meeting the two presidents.'
Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, Davit Harutiunian, criticized the Armenian police and Prosecutor's Office for inexperienced work, drawbacks and non-professionalism.
Coalition parties sounded pleased with the parliamentary commission laying the blame on the opposition.

poted on: http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2009/09/17/parliament

March 1 report presented in Armenian Parliament

Chairman of the NA Ad-Hoc Committee looking into the March 1-2 events, Samvel Nikoyan presented the Committee's report on the March 1 clashes in 90 minutes. The report mostly cited the speeches of Armenian first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan and other opposition figures, OSCE/ODIHR and Human Rights Defender's reports.
Samvel Nikoyan detailed all the facts and materials at hand in a half-empty hall. In Clause 6.2, the Committee concludes that if the state of emergency were declared after the first blasts and shots in Yerevan streets, the grave aftermaths could have been averted. The Committee finds that the presidential decree on the state emergency was belated. The conclusion is grounded for the fact that the mob gathered near the Yerevan City Hall gradually became uncontrollable and started plunder, arson burning hundreds of vehicles, breaking windows and robbing nearby shops and offices.
The Committee has come forth with proposals along with conclusions. To exclude repetition of March 1, the Committee suggests eliminating "Cheryomukha-7" special device. The Committee also suggests reviewing legal acts on police activities and use of force and conforming them to the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as to the UN basic principles on the use of force and firearms by law-enforcement agencies.
The most interesting is the fact that the Committee raises the importance of amending the RA Law on the Supervisory Chamber. The amendments will make the Chamber forward its findings to the Prosecutor's Office, which is "an effective way of combat against corruption and impunity."
Note that National Democratic Union (AZhM) representative Artavazd Vardanian and New Times Party (NZhK) Chairman Aram Karapetian didn't sign the report.

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An evidence: a "March 1" victim's jacket

"Better to see once than read hundred times without understanding," Chairman of the NA AD-Hoc Committee looking into the March 1 events, Samvel Nikoyan announced today. The jacket of police officer Tigran Abgaryan killed during the March 1 events was brought to the National Assembly today by the Special Investigation Service (SIS), upon the request of the Special Investigation Service. The SIS informed journalists that it needs to investigate once more the expert's conclusion on Tigran Abgaryan's jacket. As noted by Nikoyan, the expert's conclusion was written in a complex language which they didn't understand, so they decided to "see it once more." SIS investigator Bagrat Adamyan and expert Karen Abrahamyan opened the package and presented the jacket to the Committee, who wondered which parts of the jacket were damaged by the bullet. SIS member Aram Karapetyan later informed A1+ that the examinations hardly give any response to the tragic events. Remind that the National Assembly is due to come up with a final report on the March 1 unrest by September 15. http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2009/09/7/tigran-abgaryan