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    SARGSYAN: I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MARCH 1 EVENTS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    14.03.2008 14:39 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia's Prime Minister and President-elect
    Serzh Sargsyan said he is responsible for the March 1 and 2
    events. "We are also responsible, since we couldn't prevent such
    developments. Today we must think how to smooth the consequences over
    but not measure the fault of everyone. All facts and circumstances
    will be investigated. Those guilty will be punished," Serzh Sargsyan
    said on air of the Armenian Public Television, when responding to
    the questions addressed to him via Internet.

    "The authorities have taken all possible measures to avoid clashes
    with the opposition. The latter, however, was preparing for collisions
    from the very beginning, otherwise there would not be so many batons
    found in Liberty Square and there would not be severe resistance to a
    police search in the morning," he said, adding, "The rally initiators
    got panicky while the other opposition accepted the proposal on
    cooperation."

    He refuted the hearsay that the law enforcers offered the protesters
    to hold the action in Dinamo stadium or in the square in front
    of the railroad station. "The documentary sequences show that the
    oppositionists were offered to hold the rally at Matenadaran, but they
    refused because Ter-Petrosyan had conveyed an order to stay near the
    French Embassy. People started placing barricades, turn over buses
    and trolleybuses," the PM said.

    Commenting on the exaggerated number of victims, Mr Sargsyan said,
    "It's impossible to conceal the real number of the killed. "Eight
    people died. It's too much. One death is too much," he said, adding,
    "Over 200 policemen and 50 civilians were injured. Police did not
    use weapons against the rioters."
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