ArmInfo.Initial limitation of the tasks and goals of the April War Investigation Committee will not allow it to reveal the real facts and the culprits of what had happened. One of the leaders of All-Armenian "Sasna Tsrer" party, hero of the Artsakh war Jirayr Sefilian expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"The Committee investigates exclusively the military component of the April war. Questions are being asked about intelligence, the enemy's concentration of forces, the decisions taken in this regard, their relevance to the real situation and the degree of effectiveness of implementation. The issue of the availability of weapons and combat support is being investigated. Meanwhile, betrayal, criminal inaction of military political leadership with the goal of surrendering territories to Azerbaijan with the subsequent deployment of the Russian military took place in the geopolitical and political terms, " he stressed.
In this light, Sefilyan believes that the Committee's such an approach to the investigation initially dooms it to failure and the main culprits to leave the investigation and, accordingly, punishment. For this reason, Sasna Tsrer considers the committee as a means of covering up the names of the real culprits. According to his estimates, the latter are Serzh Sargsyan and his closest associates with whom he made and implemented strategic decisions.
Sefilian emphasized that the recent joint activities of Sargsyan, other April criminals and the Committee clearly demonstrates their mutual interest and complementarity. Sargsyan and his entourage in this work seek to blur their own responsibility for the human and territorial losses of April.
The current government, in his estimation, in turn seeks to preserve the existing semi-colonial, Kremlin- dependent, political system. Thus, keeping political life in Armenia within the framework of the struggle between the "former" and the present, both of them solve a common problem - they restrain political ambitions and the future of healthy and new forces.
"In this light, even if we are presented the final report of the Committee, it would be very much like a table toast. Although, quite possibly, there will be a secret part of the report, as it was when summing up the work of the Supreme Council commission to study the causes of Shahumyan seizure in 1992. There are no criminal cases initiated for the purpose of investigating April 2016, and there will not be any under this authority, "the politician concluded.