Mother of Killed Soldier Prepared to Disinter Son’s Body Out of his Grave

If a proper investigation is not carried out, Gohar Sargsyan (pictured), mother of Tigran Ohanjanyan, who died on Aug. 30, 2007, while serving in the army during a time of peace, told Epress.am that she will take her son’s body out of his grave.

For four years, Tigran’s parents have been protesting the official cause of Tigran’s death (electrocution), which was confirmed by a Jan. 13, 2010 court ruling. They charge that he was, in fact, murdered. As a result of complaints by Tigran’s parents, the case was re-opened and a decision was made to again examine the evidence.

The parents say that their theory is confirmed by the Scientific Research Institute of Radiophysics, which states that their experts, visiting military bases, were unable to see the R419 radio relay station at the scene.

“Though they haven’t seen it, but in the investigator’s decision there are questions posed to the experts, who wrote very unexpected, but frank responses, that there couldn’t have been an electric current in that station, that that station couldn’t have produced a current, that there couldn’t have been a current in the wire, and my child wasn’t instinctively electrocuted there. Now I ask the investigator, can I say now that my child wasn’t electrocuted there? He said, Mrs. Gohar, you can, but we have a report by a forensic committee comprised of 11 people saying that it was electrocution. I say, but they haven’t completely answered our questions, there are questions that you have to resolve through investigation and say that there is no mark of electrocution under my child’s big toe, well, what are you going to do? He says, I don’t know yet,” said Tigran’s mother.

She mentioned that at this time, they’re waiting for the military prosecutor’s response.

“Now, [Armenia’s] defense ministry, the military prosecution has a lot of work to do in my son’s case. He was unable to prove that it’s electrical shock, but how is he going to repay me for my pain all these years? In the end, what did my child do that he became worthy of such a brutal murder in the Armenian army?,” she said.