Levon Ter-Petrosyan is ready to give testimony within the March 1,  2008 case

ArmInfo. Levon Ter-Petrosyan is ready to give testimony within the case of March 1, 2008 events, Aram Manukyan, member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), told  journalists.

According to him, all those who can be useful in the disclosure of  the case, should be happy to report to the investigative service,  give evidence and in every way contribute to the investigation.  "There is not a single person in this country who is more interested  in disclosing the case on March 1 than Levon Ter-Petrosyan," he  stressed, adding that the ANC party was the first to express its  support for the Special Investigation Service (SIS).

According to him, for 10 years the ANC has been collecting materials,  and is ready to provide them to the law enforcement bodies. The party  also has lists of those police officers who gave false testimony,  lists of prosecutors, who made false accusations. "There are so many  materials that they fully prove that the implementation of crimes on  March 1 was planned," he said.

In addition, according to Aram Manukyan, the measure of restraint in  the form of arrest against Robert Kocharyan should remain unchanged.  In his opinion, it is a crime to defend such a criminal as Robert  Kocharyan. "I assure you that the day when the SIS publishes the  charges at least partially, or the facts that formed the basis of the  accusation, all those" fakes ", high-paid lawyers and the media, who  today protect Kocharyan, will shut up." Since protecting a person,  who carried out such crimes together with his mafia, to put it  mildly, is immoral, "he said.

To recall, on July 28 the Court of First Instance of Shengavit  District of Yerevan granted the request of the Special Investigation  Service of Armenia for choosing 2-month arrest as a preventive  measure against the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. On  July 26, Robert Kocharyan appeared for questioning in the SIS, where  his status was changed from witness into a "accused". After being  questioned in  the SIS, Robert Kocharyan in an interview to "Yerkir  Media" TV channel stated that a  real bomb was placed under the  statehood, referring to the attempt to  reconsider the decision of  the Constitutional Court. "The accusation is fabricated, with  political overtones and has nothing to do with reality: this is a  political persecution, vendetta, legal  surrealism," Kocharyan said.  According to him, when making such an accusation, the investigation,  therefore, does not recognize the decision of the constitutional  court, the results of the 2008 presidential elections. In his  opinion, attempts are being made to reshape the history in favor of  political conjuncture. They are trying to transfer "the moods of  broad sections of the population"  into the legal field, and it turns  out that Levon Ter- Petrosyan, who  gained 21.5%, won in the 2008  presidential elections," Kocharyan  noted. According to the former  president, this may relate to the desire to neutralize his  participation in political processes on the  eve of the early  parliamentary elections. As Kocharyan pointed out, he does not intend  to avoid responsibility, "he is ready to serve the time in jail and  go to the end", since his whole biography is connected with Armenia.   To recall, as a result of the presidential elections on February 19,  2008, the Armenian opposition led by the first president Levon   Ter-Petrosyan lost to Serzh Sargsyan. The official results of the  vote raised dissatisfaction of the supporters of the opposition  candidate. On March 1-2, as a result of a clash between protesters  and law enforcers, 10 people were killed and 200 were injured. 

The incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was a member of  Ter-Petrosyan's campaign headquarters in 2008 and one of the active  participants in the protest actions. He was put on the wanted list  and in the summer of 2009 surrendered to the authorities. On January  19, 2010 the court of administrative districts of Kentron and   Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan sentenced Pashinyan to seven years   in prison for organizing riots with a group of persons. However, in  May 2011 he was released on amnesty.