Court Waiting for Phone Call from Daddies
Suzan Simonyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 13:44:00 – 27/08/2011
Yesterday was one year of investigation of Tigran Ohanjanyan’s death
serving in the military unit of Karchaghbyur, Vardenis. Although
Prosecutor Karen Harutiunyan said large-scale investigative action and
interrogation is underway, the only change in one year is Military
Prosecutor Kostanyan’s oral statement that a false crime scene had
been reported.
Tigran Ohanjanyan’s successor, Suren Ohanjanyan, his father, believes
that the first investigator to the case, Gnel Manukyan, did his best
to raise false evidence that Tigran’s death was caused by electric
shock to prevent revelation of the real cause. The injured party tries
to have the court force the Special Investigative Service to launch
proceedings against Gnel Manukyan.
After the first instance court refusal, Tigran’s father applied to the
Court of Appeals. `The brothers-in-arms of the president of Armenia
have a hand in this crime. Therefore, this case will not be revealed,’
said the father of the killed serviceman, Tigran Ohanjanyan, after the
session of the Court of Appeals. He thinks his son was not killed by
electric shock, he was beaten to death by the bodyguards of Haykaz
Baghmanyan, the deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces.
Some circumstances make Suren Ohanjanyan think so. First, Tigran
Ohanjanyan allegedly died of electric shock in the place where the
room of Haykaz Baghmanyan’s bodyguards is. However, on the map of the
place, this room is mentioned as radio station. Second, Baghmanyan’s
bodyguards were not interrogated during the investigation and
examination in court, though some witnesses told the bodyguards had
been there.
`We had announced this before the new investigation was launched. But
they denied that Haykaz Baghmanyan has bodyguards,’ Suren Ohanjanyan
says, `Avetik Baghramyan who was on duty on that day announced that
the room of the commander of the corps was there, and mentioned their
names.
We brought up this issue in the meeting with the new prosecutor
general when we went to examine the scene together with him. He called
the medical attendant of the military unit. We asked whose room it was
and he said it was the rest room of the bodyguards.’
In August 2007, a few days before Tigran’s death, there was a big
brawl at the military unit. Integrity action was launched which ended
up in 41 pages of records which eventually disappeared. All these
circumstances appeared in press reports, and Suren Ohanjanyan cited
them in court. He reminded about the breaches of the investigation
which, according to Ohanjanyan, are evidence that the investigator has
been instructed to concoct the story of electric shock.
Tigran’s clothes were torn, but evidence to the case includes new
clothes too. Or the wire which Tigran allegedly touched and got
electric shock was not confiscated. Instead, a piece of brand new wire
was borrowed from the warehouse. The staff of the radio station proved
in court that there could be no current in the wire, while the
investigator had recorded that there was current in the wire.
The forensic doctor noted that Ohanjanyan had all his teeth in place,
whereas the father says he had one of his teeth extracted before
conscription. Suren Ohanjanyan’s reported the investigator’s breaches
to the Special Investigative Service but the chief of the SIS, Mr.
Mirzoyan, redirected the report to the office of the military
prosecutor.
`Since Tigran Ohanjanyan’s death was investigated at the prosecutor’s
office, Suren Ohanjanyan’s report is redirected there. Meanwhile, they
are two different things,’ Attorney Seda Safaryan, Ohanjanyan’s
defender, announced in court.
The attorney says the SIS is not authorized to redirect the report on
the investigator to the military prosecutor’s office, and for its
part, it was not authorized to send it to Prosecutor Karen Harutiunyan
who was not authorized to assign it to Detective Levon Petrosyan.
Detective Levon Petrosyan who showed up in court said it is outside
his competence to prepare materials on the actions of an officer of
the prosecutor’s office.
Prosecutor Karen Harutiunyan who at last turned up in court said he
accepted the report because it related to the circumstances reflected
in the records of the criminal case under his supervision. However,
Judge Aida Hovanisyan adjourned the hearing because his answer was
considered incomplete and deserving more evidence.
The parents of soldiers killed during their military service started
yelling that there is an order from above to cover up the case.
`Court’s waiting for a phone call from daddies,’ they chanted as the
prosecutor and investigator left the court room.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23113.html