Justice is not being implemented by order or under the influence of the street: Seyran Ohanyan

Ex defense minister Seyran Ohanyan does not accept the accusations against him. In Facebook page the former high ranking official wrote that the charges filed in the sidelines of March 1 case are legally baseless with the judicial process being guided and rights of people and basic freedoms being violated which is an encroachment against Armenia’s Constitution.

“The well-known conversation between the NSS and SIS directors prove concrete instructions made by the NSS chief, bilateral arrangements,” he wrote, adding that on December 20, 2018 his right of free movement has been illegally restricted.

Referring to the senseless accusations, Ohanyan asked, “Do those who breach the Armenian Constitution have right to implement justice over those general-colonels, president and others who defended Armenia and Artsakh, who had a considerable contribution to the strengthening of the country?

I qualify it as a way taking the revelation of painful events of March 1 to a deadlock while the logic of the accusations filed within its framework hint that new ‘creative approaches’ are not excluded,” he wrote.

“I have an impression that there are hidden figures who handle manipulative tricks and play with the feelings of the people using the memory of March 1 victims in their treacherous and far-sighted, unknown purposes,” Ohanyan continued, adding that as a person who has passed through difficulties and trials of war, who headed armed forces of Armenia and Artsakh considers this situation taking to uncertainty alarming.

“I strictly warn that this kind of illegalities are encroachments toward the values and achievements of our people and shatter the grounds of our statehood, put under doubt the efforts exerted toward the consolidation and development of the country,” he wrote, stressing that just like while being charged and now as well he states that the accusations are groundless and unaccepted.

“Justice is not being implemented by order or under the influence of the street, Justice is being implemented by the independent and unbiased activity of the best specialists of the judicial system,” Ohanyan concluded.