NAMES OF 8 KILLED IN YEREVAN DISORDERS IDENTIFIED
DeFacto Agency
March 3 2008
Armenia
YEREVAN, 03.03.08. DE FACTO. The personalities of 8 killed as a
result of disorders carried out on March 1 in Yerevan’s centre by
the supporters of ex presidential nominee Levon Ter-Petrossian have
been identified.
Among those killed are Zakar Hovhannisian, Hamlet Tadevossian,
Gor Khloyan, David Petrosian, Tigran Khachatrian, Grigor Gevorkian,
Hovhannes Hovhannisian, and Armen Farmanian. The circumstances of
these people’s death are being ascertained.
According to the RA Ministry of Public Health, 131 people have been
taken to the Yerevan hospitals on March 1. 72 of them are servicemen,
59 civil people. 16 out of 72 injured servicemen and 18 out of 59
civil people got bullet and fragmentation wounds.
In the course of a working meeting with RA President Robert Kocharian
RA Minister of Health Harutyun Kushkian reported the state’s head on
the casualties’ health.
Since March 1 state of emergency has been imposed in Yerevan by RA
President’s decree. The disorders carried out by oppositionists in
Yerevan’s centre, in the vicinity of the Yerevan City Hall, served
as the ground for imposing state of emergency.