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NEW VIDEO ON YOUTUBE SHOWS "HORIZONTAL" SHOOTING IN ARMENIA'S 2008 POST-ELECTION CLASHES
By Gayane Lazarian
ArmeniaNow
25.05.11 | 12:46
New video on YouTube shows "horizontal" shooting in Armenia's 2008
post-election clashes
Sargsyan calls for "new momentum" in 03/08 probe Sargsyan calls for
"new momentum" in 03/08 probe It is already two days that a thus far
unseen video of shootings during the 2008 post-election street violence
in Yerevan has been on YouTube and also circulating on different online
social networks. The video arguably shows horizontal gunshots (rather
than shots into the air) made from amongst the law-enforcers gathered
around a water canon at the scene of the March 1-2, 2008 clashes.
Andranik Kocharyan, a member of the disbanded fact-finding group
probing the 03/08 case (the group was set up on President Serzh
Sargsyan's orders in late 2008, but was dissolved within less than
eight months), says that the video material contains much information
and that the Special Investigative Service (SIS) should seriously
look into it and try to find those who fired the shots.
Still on April 20, President Serzh Sargsyan told top prosecutors and
security officials to step up their efforts in investigating the 2008
post-election unrest.
"Try to find new ways of solving those incidents. A lot of time has
passed; maybe there are people who were witnesses and didn't want
to cooperate with law-enforcement bodies at the time but have now
different approaches," stressed the president then.
On May 16, the SIS released a statement in which it called on anyone
possessing any information or piece of evidence concerning the
circumstances of the March 1-2, 2008 events to come forward and help
the investigation.
Kocharyan insists that this latest video on YouTube clearly shows
one or several police workers releasing aimed fire from their guns.
"If the officer were firing for intimidation purposes, then he should
have fired into the air, but after a horizontal shot the bullet may
have hit anyone," says Kocharyan.
The member of the disbanded fact-finding group thinks facts are
especially important for the revelation of circumstances of one
citizen's death on that day. The video was shot at the intersection
of Leo and Paronyan streets very close to the immediate scene of the
clashes. (David Petrosyan, the citizen in question, was killed near
the first entrance to the building in 2 Paronyan Street, after being
hit in the back with a bullet released from a Makarov pistol).
"Petrosyan was hit in the back. It is very possible that he was
killed with such a random, inadvertent shot. Let them reveal whether
it had anything to do with that or not. This is what makes this video
valuable," says Kocharyan.
From: Baghdasarian
By Gayane Lazarian
ArmeniaNow
25.05.11 | 12:46
New video on YouTube shows "horizontal" shooting in Armenia's 2008
post-election clashes
Sargsyan calls for "new momentum" in 03/08 probe Sargsyan calls for
"new momentum" in 03/08 probe It is already two days that a thus far
unseen video of shootings during the 2008 post-election street violence
in Yerevan has been on YouTube and also circulating on different online
social networks. The video arguably shows horizontal gunshots (rather
than shots into the air) made from amongst the law-enforcers gathered
around a water canon at the scene of the March 1-2, 2008 clashes.
Andranik Kocharyan, a member of the disbanded fact-finding group
probing the 03/08 case (the group was set up on President Serzh
Sargsyan's orders in late 2008, but was dissolved within less than
eight months), says that the video material contains much information
and that the Special Investigative Service (SIS) should seriously
look into it and try to find those who fired the shots.
Still on April 20, President Serzh Sargsyan told top prosecutors and
security officials to step up their efforts in investigating the 2008
post-election unrest.
"Try to find new ways of solving those incidents. A lot of time has
passed; maybe there are people who were witnesses and didn't want
to cooperate with law-enforcement bodies at the time but have now
different approaches," stressed the president then.
On May 16, the SIS released a statement in which it called on anyone
possessing any information or piece of evidence concerning the
circumstances of the March 1-2, 2008 events to come forward and help
the investigation.
Kocharyan insists that this latest video on YouTube clearly shows
one or several police workers releasing aimed fire from their guns.
"If the officer were firing for intimidation purposes, then he should
have fired into the air, but after a horizontal shot the bullet may
have hit anyone," says Kocharyan.
The member of the disbanded fact-finding group thinks facts are
especially important for the revelation of circumstances of one
citizen's death on that day. The video was shot at the intersection
of Leo and Paronyan streets very close to the immediate scene of the
clashes. (David Petrosyan, the citizen in question, was killed near
the first entrance to the building in 2 Paronyan Street, after being
hit in the back with a bullet released from a Makarov pistol).
"Petrosyan was hit in the back. It is very possible that he was
killed with such a random, inadvertent shot. Let them reveal whether
it had anything to do with that or not. This is what makes this video
valuable," says Kocharyan.
From: Baghdasarian