The demand of residents, that the building be demolished, is unlikely to happen since someone owns it. That person hasn’t made improvements to the building during the past thirty years.
On December 20, 2017 Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan signed a one-time monetary award decree to “encourage municipality employees for their good work”.
Pashinyan said that Robert Kocharian, the outgoing president at the time, shouldn’t be seen as the main culprit, and that Serzh Sargsyan shares a greater burden of the blame for March 2008 events.
Kostanyan, who wasn’t the prosecutor general in March 2008, refereed to Article 55, Point 13 of Armenia’s Constitution giving the president the power to declare martial law and the use of the armed forces “in the event of an armed attack against the Republic, an imminent danger thereof or declaration of war.”
The activist, who had originally been banned from entering the parliament and giving his address, told relatives of those killed during the unrest ten years ago that he was sorry that he and the other activists hadn’t been killed instead.
Ten were killed and hundreds injured when police and army units were mobilized to crush public protests following the February 19, 2008 election, won by Serzh Sargsyan, that most in Armenia regarded as fraudulent.
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