“Aghvan Hovsepyan continues to be within the frames of the directives, which once Robert Kocharyan had issued. Saying convicted by the trial, he basically means political prisoners. These criminal cases are political persecution against the opposition, which resulted in arrest of more than a hundred people, stayed in detention facilities, in other words, Robert Kocharyan’s famous directive was implemented that a lot of people were in the prison for a long time”, said Mr. Sakunts to Aravot.am, referring to Mr. Hovsepyan’s allegations that numerous episodes on “March 1” event were disclosed, a number of people were convicted and the verdict of none of them has been reviewed by court instances.
According to Mr. Sakunts, the March 1 crime is not an ordinary crime, but a state crime. “It is a crime against the constitution, which involves government officials, oligarchs with their bodyguards, as well as, in some cases, with their relatives, and they were headed by the then President Robert Kocharyan. Only the trial against the victims of this crime cannot be considered complete and objective. The then officials, those who give orders, General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan, Chief Police Hayk Harutyunyan, Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan, Head of General Detachment Seyran Ohanyan and others should be interrogated under this lawsuit. I look at some lawsuits of the victims and there is no document on these criminal lawsuits where my mentioned officials were interrogated… if they were not interrogated, and no legal score was given to their actions, then it is pointless to speak about the disclosure of March 1 event. Aghvan Hovsepyan and other officials were dreaming of not having a position then, and were saying, we wish we didn’t hold a position, because he was involved in a crime and given a tribute to Robert Kocharyan’s obvious illegal actions.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
