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HOW ARMENIAN THEMIS TURNS DEFENDANTS INTO "AGGRIEVED PERSONS" AND VICE VERSA
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Sept 18 2013
18 September 2013 - 10:41am
David Stepanyan, Yerevan. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
Recently Armenia has seen an event which dispelled the last hopes
for the citizens' justice. The investigation service of the Defense
Ministry reported on dismissal of the criminal case of Tigran
Khachatryan and his bodyguard Zarzand Nikogosyan. Both of them were
accused of murdering the former candidate for Goris's mayor, Avetik
Budagyan, and had been detained under arrest for three months.
At the beginning of the investigation, the investigation service
of the Defense Ministry "found out" that the son and the bodyguard
of Litska (a nickname of the former governor of the Syunik region,
Syurik Khachatryan) were merely defended themselves from Avetik and
Artak Budagyan, who were attacking them.
The head of the investigation service of the Defense Ministry, Armen
Arutyunyan, who was nicknamed by journalists "the lawyer" of the
Khachatryans, stated that all the weapons - about 10 guns - found in
Litska's house were registered in his name. Arutyunyan didn't answer
all the direct questions on how 11 shots by the Khachatryans could be
considered self-defense and a response to two shots which were said
to have been made by Avetik Budagyan. When journalists asked him how
the home-made gun which was found in Litska's house could be legally
registered in his name, Arutyunyan referred to a weapons-bearing
document which was signed by the head of the police. According to
Arutyunyan's logic, any home-made gun can be turned into a legal by
one signature of a policeman.
According to the lawyer of Artak Budagyan, Aik Alumyan, the
investigation service and the military prosecution did their best to
equate him to a real criminal, ignoring the murder of Avetik Budagyan.
The fact that "the top brass" would do everything to cover up for the
Khachatryans was obvious from the very beginning. The investigation
excluded an option that Litska was present at the crime scene, stating
that the drunk governor slept at home so well that he woke up only
after a dozen shots in his yard. The release of Budagyan's murders
stirred up society and dispelled the last hopes for Armenian justice.
The civil initiative "Pre-parliament" stated that the release of
Khachatryan and Nikogosyan demonstrated that the system of state
management had turned into an instrument of enslavement and humiliation
of its own people. Human right activists Artur Sakunts and Janna
Alexanyan left the Defense Ministry committee on deaths of military
personnel because of the case. They stated that the decision was made
under the supervision of the military prosecutor, Gevork Kostanyan.
It seems that only representatives of the ruling party, state
structures and Khachatryan believe the decision on Litska's case is
fair. Everybody knows Litska and his Mediaeval rules in the Syunik
region.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/analysis/society/45236.html
From: A. Papazian
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Sept 18 2013
18 September 2013 - 10:41am
David Stepanyan, Yerevan. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
Recently Armenia has seen an event which dispelled the last hopes
for the citizens' justice. The investigation service of the Defense
Ministry reported on dismissal of the criminal case of Tigran
Khachatryan and his bodyguard Zarzand Nikogosyan. Both of them were
accused of murdering the former candidate for Goris's mayor, Avetik
Budagyan, and had been detained under arrest for three months.
At the beginning of the investigation, the investigation service
of the Defense Ministry "found out" that the son and the bodyguard
of Litska (a nickname of the former governor of the Syunik region,
Syurik Khachatryan) were merely defended themselves from Avetik and
Artak Budagyan, who were attacking them.
The head of the investigation service of the Defense Ministry, Armen
Arutyunyan, who was nicknamed by journalists "the lawyer" of the
Khachatryans, stated that all the weapons - about 10 guns - found in
Litska's house were registered in his name. Arutyunyan didn't answer
all the direct questions on how 11 shots by the Khachatryans could be
considered self-defense and a response to two shots which were said
to have been made by Avetik Budagyan. When journalists asked him how
the home-made gun which was found in Litska's house could be legally
registered in his name, Arutyunyan referred to a weapons-bearing
document which was signed by the head of the police. According to
Arutyunyan's logic, any home-made gun can be turned into a legal by
one signature of a policeman.
According to the lawyer of Artak Budagyan, Aik Alumyan, the
investigation service and the military prosecution did their best to
equate him to a real criminal, ignoring the murder of Avetik Budagyan.
The fact that "the top brass" would do everything to cover up for the
Khachatryans was obvious from the very beginning. The investigation
excluded an option that Litska was present at the crime scene, stating
that the drunk governor slept at home so well that he woke up only
after a dozen shots in his yard. The release of Budagyan's murders
stirred up society and dispelled the last hopes for Armenian justice.
The civil initiative "Pre-parliament" stated that the release of
Khachatryan and Nikogosyan demonstrated that the system of state
management had turned into an instrument of enslavement and humiliation
of its own people. Human right activists Artur Sakunts and Janna
Alexanyan left the Defense Ministry committee on deaths of military
personnel because of the case. They stated that the decision was made
under the supervision of the military prosecutor, Gevork Kostanyan.
It seems that only representatives of the ruling party, state
structures and Khachatryan believe the decision on Litska's case is
fair. Everybody knows Litska and his Mediaeval rules in the Syunik
region.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/analysis/society/45236.html
From: A. Papazian