 Kocharian justified the decision on the grounds that a minority of demonstrators looted a nearby grocery store on Mashtots Avenue and set fire to a handful of police vehicles and buses (while the riot police, special forces and army looked on from 1 km away from Shahumyan Square without intervening).Opposition leaders say that the looters had nothing to do with the demonstration, and that they were led by "agent provocateurs".With the state of emergency in effect, at around 4