ArmInfo. "I believe that the events of March 1, 2008 were not properly investigated and the perpetrators did not suffer a well-deserved punishment." In this regard, the Elk faction developed a draft of the Parliament's statement "On the events of March 1, 2008", which, however, received a negative conclusion of the commission on state and legal issues. " This was during the hearings in the Parliament on "Events March 1 - 2, 2008" on February 23, said the head of the "Elk" faction Nikol Pashinyan.
The deputy noted that the representatives of the "Elk" bloc express their dissatisfaction with the fact that the cases of falsification of the elections in 2008 were not properly considered and outraged by the fact that the guilty events of March 1, 2018 were not yet revealed.
The statement developed by the bloc reads: "We declare that we deeply condemn the fact that after the rigged presidential elections of 2008, on the night of March 1 to 2, the RA police used force against peaceful protesters, and the authorities started harassment with respect to opposition politicians.We are asking the law enforcement bodies of Armenia to find and punish the perpetrators of the crimes committed on March 1. We consider it unacceptable to dissolve the group of experts on the events of March 1, as they could shed light on the army's participation in these events.
We urge the Prosecutor General of Armenia to reconsider the indictments against opposition politicians and activists on March 1. We are committed to developing a legislative package that will provide decent compensation to the relatives of the victims of March 1 events, those who were convicted, as well as citizens who were injured by the police, "Pashinyan said.
In support of the proposal to put into circulation the draft of the Parliament's statement on the events of March 1, 2008, in particular, it says: "The purpose of this statement is to express the political assessment of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on the events of March 1, 2008 - in particular, that the murders have not yet been uncovered, political persecution of the opposition by the authorities has been carried out.The document is also intended to assess the government's attempts to hide the most important episodes of March 1 events, the political persecution of relatives TV, as well as concealing the fact that the relatives of the victims and injured as a result of the unlawful use of force by the police, did not receive legal compensation. "
It should be noted that on March 1, 2008, the Armenian police applied force against citizens holding a peaceful rally on Liberty Square in Yerevan in protest against the falsification of the presidential elections. The meetings lasted about 10 days. As a result of the use of force, the police killed 10 people. The names of the killers have not been disclosed to this day. On October 23, 2008, Serzh Sargsyan established a group of experts whose purpose was to gather facts about the events of March 1, 2008. However, in June 2009, he dissolved this group.