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Arman Gharibyan

Slain Soldier’s Mom – “They try the innocent so that the real murderers can go free”

On August 30, 2007, the RoA Appeals Court let stand a lower court ruling in the case of Tigran Ohandjanyan, a soldier who died during military service. Those implicated in the case, Captain Rostom Khachatryan, Chief of Communications at the military base, and NCO Karen Tovmasyan, were exonerated by the lower court. Tigran’s parents have told Hetq that the prosecuting attorney has filed a complaint with the RoA Court of Cassation regarding this decision, demanding that the case be sent back to the administrative court for review. According to the official version of Tigran’s death, the young soldier was electrocuted at the military base. But the dead man’s parents have continuously claimed that Tigran was murdered as a result of official incompetence. They claim that just days before his death, it was shown, during electrical tests, that the antennae on the base was hooked up with a 30 volt wire, not enough power to electrocute someone who accidentally came into contact with it. "Those two officers are being indicted due to the electrocution, but if my boy wasn’t electrocuted why are they being charged? It’s just because the real murderers have powerful connections and these two are just regular Joes," said Tigran’s mother Gohar Sargsyan. The Court of Cassation has yet made any decision regarding the prosecutor’s petition.

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