“There should be actions following the statements, our state is the state that no issues are resolved in the framework of statements, there should be mechanisms such as the mechanisms of fulfillment of ECHR decisions which will ensure the exclusion of these violations,” such an opinion was expressed by the human rights defender Arayik Zalyan, referring to the investigation of the murder of 10 citizens on 1 March, 2008, raised by the UN Committee against Torture.
Recall that the UN Committee against Torture had raised the issue of investigation of the murder of 10 citizens on 1 March 2008 during the discussion of the report of the government on the fulfillment of the commitments of Armenian by the Convention against Torture. Mr. Zalyan said that within the assumed commitments, each investigation should result in revealing the perpetrators and defining an adequate punishment, in this case, we do not have such an investigation conducted, “What has happened we have seen inside Armenia, no positive move has been reported”, we do not have circles of perpetrators and specific guilty for “March 1” incident, as a result of these passing years, a situation may occur that in the future the state will raise this responsibility within the legal field but here problems related to the period of limitation may come out.
In each of such cases, the state is obliged to carry out an immediate investigation, urgent actions which we saw not happening. Its performance as a result of time to some extent may become impossible, in other words, it turns out that the commitments assumed by the Conventions that in the case of the violation of the rights to life the state undertakes the commitment to conduct a proper investigation which will be affordable for the victim’s family members and which will lead to the identification of perpetrators and adequate punishment, regarding these victims we report that there was no investigation conducted.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
