Relatives of those killed during the political protests of March 1, 2008, have sent a letter to Dick Marty ,Chairperson, PACE Monitoring Committee and PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs John Prescott and Axel Fischer, expressing their anger and disappointment regarding a draft resolution called “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Armenia.

The draft resolution welcomes the “renewed impetus” given by the President of Armenia in investigating the 1 March 2008 deaths and calls for publication of a final―or at least an interim―report before the end of 2011.

Relatives of those killed write that Provision 11 of the draft, which says that “the Assembly considers that the outcome of the latest general amnesty, the renewed impetus to investigate the 10 deaths during the March 2008 events, and the resulting start of a constructive dialogue between the opposition and the ruling coalition meant that the chapter on the March 2008 events can finally be considered closed” is entirely unacceptable.