{"id":283885,"date":"2018-03-01T16:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283885"},"modified":"2018-03-01T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:48:54","slug":"sad-to-see-victims-of-march-1-supporting-perpetrators-sakunts-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/03\/01\/sad-to-see-victims-of-march-1-supporting-perpetrators-sakunts-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Sad to See Victims of March 1 Supporting Perpetrators, Sakunts Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian authorities\u2019 refusal to disclose any circumstances regarding the events of March 1, 2008, is part of a show, Arakel Semirjyan, coordinator of the March 1 NGO and a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress party, said in a news conference in Yerevan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even if they are playing a game, I am prepared to become a part of it so that people do not forget about March 1. Our task is to ensure that this issue is never pushed aside into oblivion. We must try to end the show and make the process more real and serious,\u201d the oppositionist added.<\/p>\n<p>Artur Sakunts, the head of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor Office, insisted in turn that \u201cfrom a juridical point of view, the terrorist act of March 1 is fully disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of evidence, including video materials and court testimonies given during the hearings in the cases against peaceful demonstrators and political oppositionists. This evidence is sufficient to initiate another criminal case, which should have been done from the very beginning,\u201d the human rights advocate said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sakunts, \u201cnot giving the March 1 events a legal assessment of state terrorism threatens the existence of the Republic of Armenia as a state.\u201d The fact that some of the victims of \u201cthis state terrorism\u201d now stand by the authorities \u201cis particularly deplorable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese 10 years have shown us that some of the victims of this state terrorism have, sadly, chosen to stand by those who carried out this terrorist act. The authorities had probably hoped that some of the victims would develop Stockholm syndrome and begin praising the executioner or accepting him as a savior,\u201d Sakunts stated.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; There is a lot of evidence, including video materials and court testimonies given during the hearings in the cases against peaceful demonstrators and political oppositionists&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}