For Anahit Bakhshyan, a member of the Heritage Party and a former MP, the initiative to condemn the ANC activists to up to 6 years in prison has political overtones and a specific goal. “Recalling different stories of our reality, which concerned people of the ruling political force and people in the opposite camp, I can say that if you are in the government, you can murder a man and the punishment will be different, but if you are in the opposite political camp, even a curse can be costly for you. Tamamyan was convicted to 4 years, organizers of the events of March 1 have not been revealed so far and moreover, Grigor Grigoryan, one of the people mostly responsible for March 1 has appeared in the National Assembly. Whereas the Fact-Finding Group explained reasonably enough what role he had played in March 1, but that person is an MP today,” Ms. Bakhshyan told www.aravot.am.
In her opinion, such a work style will present Armenia to the international community with another negative report. Let us remind that the ANC activists were charged with Articles 316 and 258 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia – hooliganism and the use of violence against a government representative.
Arpine SIMONYAN
