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.
By a vote of 66 to 46, Armenia’s National Assembly rejected a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to investigate the events of March 1, 2008 in which ten people died during political protests in Yerevan.
Hundreds of citizens are marching on the Presidential Palace in Yerevan demanding that the government finally expose and prosecute those responsible for the death of ten and wounding of scores of peaceful protesters on March 1, 2008.
Declaring that they had nothing to be afraid of, Prosperous Armenia MP Naira Zohrabyan said that her party would back an opposition initiative to form a ad-hoc committee to investigate the March 1, 2008 affair that claimed the lives of ten people in Yerevan.
Despite rebuffing an opposition initiative to create a temporary commission to get to the truth of what happened on March 1, 2008, Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan hinted that positive movement on the issue was around the corner.
Manoukyan said that the ultimate objective would be more than identifying and prosecuting those responsible for the death of ten people during the March 1 political protests.
Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan in parliament today revisited the events and aftereffects of March 1, 2008, and spoke about Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's brother amassing huge sums of money from newly installed speed cameras in the capital, Armenian citizens' power to revolt, and several other topics of concern.
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamyan rejected to a call made by MP Aram Manoukyan that ruling coalition legislators back the formation of a special committee to look into the events of March 1, 2008.
In the continuing parliamentary debate regarding the possible creation of an ad-hoc committee to look into the events of March 1, 2008, during which ten people died in Yerevan, Heritage Party MP Alexander Arzoumanyan said that the truth could not be revealed for as long as the current government is in power.