March 1, 2008, events could be basis for legal assessment of what  happened 17 years ago - premier 

ArmInfo. The events of March 1, 2008 should become the basis for a legal assessment of what happened 17 years ago. This was stated to journalists by RA Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan on March 1.

He noted that he had never said before that the crime had been fully  solved. Nevertheless, according to the Prime Minister, the events of  that period may become the basis for another investigation. To a  large extent, the delays in the investigations are due to personnel  issues.

Pashinyan recalled that a new leadership of the Investigative  Committee had recently been appointed, a competition had been  announced to fill the vacant position of Chairman of the  Anti-Corruption Committee, and before that there had been discussions  on the candidacy of the Prosecutor General. "Full disclosure of that  crime was and is one of the important tasks that were set by him,"  the head of government said.

In fact, as Pashinyan noted, pressure was exerted on citizens 17  years ago with the use of force and the involvement of the army,  armed criminal elements, which led to murders. This fact, as the  Prime Minister noted, should receive a legal assessment from law  enforcement agencies. He noted that cases should be solved exactly as  much as possible.

"Here we are once again dealing with the system of public  administration. Should I take on the disclosure of this case or not?  If we want this regulation to move in this logic, let's change this  regulation. In any case, this problem continues to be in the center  of attention of the new heads of investigative bodies," Nikol  Pashinyan said.

On March 1, 2008, after the regular presidential elections held on  February 19, in which Serzh Sargsyan won, riots broke out in Yerevan,  resulting in clashes with law enforcement officials. The Armenian  opposition, led by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who also  ran in the elections, held rallies in the center of Yerevan from  February 20, expressing dissatisfaction with the results of the vote.  The protests turned into riots and clashes between protesters and law  enforcement on March 1-2, resulting in 10 deaths, including police  officers, and over 200 injuries of varying severity.

On August 17, 2018, Nikol Pashinyan stated that the case of the  events of March 1-2, 2008 in Yerevan had been fully resolved. "I will  repeat once again and say this with full responsibility: there is no  option for any of the criminals, their leaders, to escape  responsibility. There is no such option," he emphasized.

However, that so far none of the responsible persons have been  punished for that crime