In its repots, Interim Parliamentary Committee’s investigating March 1, 2008 incident adopted a condescending approach to Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan told a news conference in Yerevan. “Committee members mostly criticize police, making slight hints at special investigative service and keeping silent about Prosecutor’s Office,” he said. Committee, according to him, omitted to reveal investigators’ wrongdoings, particularly the letter on alienating Myasnik Malkhasyan. Onbudsman also stressed that document did not firmly criticize 10 individuals’ death. “Its principal disadvantage is that it contains no specific remark,” he said.
Touching upon the positive aspects, Harutyunyan said the document reflected all principal facts such as existence of weapons and cases of beating individuals.
“For all its partiality, the report contains certain clauses which are quite objective,” he said, adding that committee accounted for last year’s disorder by systemic and institutional factors, i.e. extreme centralization of power and selected social groups. Authorities are the chief culprit, and responsibility for making decision lies upon them, Ombudsman finds.
