“I think that during those events (March 1 events) the police has made serious violations in terms of imbalance and for that the first person responsible is Haik Harutyunyan,” told our reporter the Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan by commenting the words of the chairman of the ad hoc on the investigation of March 1 events Samvel Nikoyan. The latter recently said that nobody had given any order on March 1-2. “I don’t know what he has told Nikoyan but I know that he is going to attend the ad hoc session and am really curious about what he’s going to say there,” said Harutyunyan and added, “but I am absolutely sure that the police acted in an imbalanced way and he should be responsible for the disorder as he was in charge of the police at that time.” The Ombudsman mentioned that a number of high-rank policemen had mentioned at the ad hoc sessions that they received a direct order from their superior. Reminder: one of those policemen was the former commander of police forces Grigor Grigoryan, who had stated at the ad hoc that Haik Harutyunyan was the one, who gave an order to arm the police officers. Let us also remind that Harutyunyan had numerously refused to attend the ad hoc but soon he will most probably attend the session next week. That way he will be interrogated by the commission members. It’s not yet known whether the session will be open for the journalists or not. Of course it will be naïve to think that the ad hoc will try to reveal any new facts through Harutyunyan and most probably everything will proceed in a preliminarily planned scenario. However, regardless of the desire of the ad hoc and “level of training” Harutyunyan may appear in a desperate situation and if he claims again that he didn’t receive any orders he will be the only one responsible for the 10 victims of March 1. The only way to avoid criminal charges is to utter Robert Kocharyan’s name.
