Armenia`s premier pays tribute to March 1, 2008, victims 

ArmInfo. Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan paid tribute to the  memory of the victims of March 1, 2008. This was reported by the  press service of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

The top government officials visited the monument to the victims of  March 1, erected in the park near Grigor Lusavorich Street, where  they laid flowers.

On March 1, 2008, after the regular presidential elections held on  February 19, in which Serzh Sargsyan won, riots broke out in Yerevan,  resulting in clashes with law enforcement officials. The Armenian  opposition, led by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who also  ran in the elections, held rallies in the center of Yerevan since  February 20, expressing dissatisfaction with the results of the vote.

The protests turned into riots and clashes between protesters and law  enforcement on March 1-2, resulting in 10 deaths, including police  officers, and over 200 injuries of varying severity.

On August 17, 2018, Nikol Pashinyan stated that the case of the  events of March 1-2, 2008 in Yerevan had been fully resolved. "I will  repeat once again and say this with full responsibility: there is no  option for any of the criminals, their leaders, to escape  responsibility. There is no such option," he emphasized.

It should be noted, however, that so far none of the responsible  persons have been punished for that crime.