When asked by a reporter if a new bill being debated in the Armenian National Assembly that would allow for the president to call in the army during a state of emergency wouldn’t lead to another March 1st tragedy, Union for Self-Determination (AIM) party leader Paruyr Hayrikyan said that it wasn’t the army but the army’s commanders that would bear any such responsibility for civilian deaths.

The bill in questioned was introduced in the parliament yesterday by the Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan.