Twenthy-eight-year-old Varduhi Baghdasaryan says almost voicelessly that she does not want to talk about anything related to her husband. She is the widow of Grigor Gevorgyan who became a chance victim of March 1 events.

“I apologize a thousand times, but I have no wish to talk about it. It has happened for about three times – I talked to reporters, my words were twisted and printed, and that’s why I don’t want it. Once again, I am sorry, but I don’t want to,” says Grigor’s wife and closes the door of the small one-room house in Kond, where she has been living with her two children and without her husband for a year.

One of her relatives – Lusine – also forbids her to talk about the difficulties of the year she’s spent without her husband.

“The newspapers don’t fill my children’s stomachs. We have a lot of troubles as it is, Varduhi is hardly capable of providing for her children, and remembering all this for one more time is too much for her,” Lusine told ArmeniaNow in a phone conversation.

“And in general our Grigor is sacred, may our boy’s name not be written anywhere, so that what we have said does not get distorted afterwards,” she added.

28-year-old Grigor Gevorgyan was the only breadwinner in the family of 6; he worked at a petrol station. On March 1 he left the house after 5 o’clock – to get his salary.

“It was around 8 – Grigor called, he was on Leo Street. He said, ‘Varduhi, the situation is awful, I am encircled, the cops are not letting me out, they are aiming their guns at me and saying – we’ll shoot you dead, back off.’ I began shouting; I said, ‘I am coming.’ He said, ‘Stay in the house.’ Around 9 the phone wasn’t answering any more. Then his phone switched off completely, and we didn’t have any news,” Varduhi had told ArmeniaNow in March 2008. (see Dead Innocent)

According to official data, he was wounded in front of a shoe-repair booth near the bridge adjacent to the intersection of Paronyan and Leo Streets.

According to the court doctor’s conclusion, on Grigor’s “corpse a gunshot inlet was found on the back of the nose, and an outlet in the left forehead-parietal area. The cause of death was the acute disturbance of the vital functions of the brain.”