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    OPPOSITION DEMANDS THAT OMBUDSMAN CHALLENGE LEGALITY OF ORDERS OF USING ARMED FORCES ON MARCH 1 AT CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

    Noyan Tapan
    Feb 20, 2009

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The irrefutable proof of the Public
    Committee on Study of the 2008 March 1 events is evidence that in order
    to suppress the people complaining against the electoral falsifications
    the authorities illegally used the army. Levon Zurabian, the Armenian
    National Congress (ANC) Coordinator, stated at the February 18 press
    conference. He said that the opposition is going to apply to the RA
    Ombudsman demanding that the latter challenge at the Constitutional
    Court (CC) correspondence to the Constitution of the orders to use
    the army and armed forces on March 1.

    Video recordings were shown during the press conference of how on
    March 1 at about 14:00 the BTR internal troops armoured car appeared
    in the territory near the monument to A. Miasnikian, in the rally
    place. According to Vladimir Karapetian, a member of the Public
    Committee, ANC Foreign Contacts Coordinator, bringing that car against
    the peaceful demonstrants caused the natural and legal response of the
    latters envisaged by Article 42, RA Criminal Code, necessary defence.

    "In consideration of the circumstance that after the midday there were
    more than 50 units of military materiel with the RA Defence Ministry
    state registration numbers in Yerevan, one can assert that several
    dozens of Defence Ministry armed representatives were involved in the
    law enforcers' actions," V. Karapetian said. He added that there was
    a BRDM armoured car near the government building on that day, which
    is at the Military Police disposal. It was also mentioned that the
    BMP car arriving in Yerevan at 20:00 from its dislocation place, Lori
    or Tavush region, started off at least 8 hours ago, that is, before
    announcing the state of emergency. V. Karapetian reported that the
    Committee asks the fact-finding group to study all mentioned materials.
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