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From: Sebouh Z Tashjian <[email protected]>
Subject: October 27, 1999
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OCTOBER 27, 1999 (video)
[02:44 pm] 27 October, 2006
At 17:13 armed terrorists broke into the NA session hall and started
to shoot at the officials sitting in the first rows.
They killed:
NA Speaker Karen Demirchyan;
RA Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan;
NA deputy Speakers Yuri Bakhshyan,
and Rouben Miroyan;
deputies Michael Kotanyan, Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan,
Minister of Regional Government Leonard Petrosyan.
Deputies and Ministers were injured.
Those who were alive were kept hostages in the NA session hall.
The official sources did not report about the death of the first
officials of the country for five hours.
Only after 10:00 p.m. the President?s residence made a statement
about victims.
Late in the evening the dead bodies were taken out of the Parliament
building. The negotiations with the terrorists went on until
dawn. Even the President of the country met them.
Early in the morning the hostages were set free and the terrorists
yielded themselves prisoners getting guarantees of security.
The October 27 trial started In January 2001 and lasted about three
years. In the meantime Armenia became member of the CoE, ratified the
European convention on Human Rights and its 6th protocol, eliminating
capital punishment once and for all.
The terrorists who cruelly shot the first officials of the country
were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Subject: October 27, 1999
A1+
OCTOBER 27, 1999 (video)
[02:44 pm] 27 October, 2006
At 17:13 armed terrorists broke into the NA session hall and started
to shoot at the officials sitting in the first rows.
They killed:
NA Speaker Karen Demirchyan;
RA Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan;
NA deputy Speakers Yuri Bakhshyan,
and Rouben Miroyan;
deputies Michael Kotanyan, Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan,
Minister of Regional Government Leonard Petrosyan.
Deputies and Ministers were injured.
Those who were alive were kept hostages in the NA session hall.
The official sources did not report about the death of the first
officials of the country for five hours.
Only after 10:00 p.m. the President?s residence made a statement
about victims.
Late in the evening the dead bodies were taken out of the Parliament
building. The negotiations with the terrorists went on until
dawn. Even the President of the country met them.
Early in the morning the hostages were set free and the terrorists
yielded themselves prisoners getting guarantees of security.
The October 27 trial started In January 2001 and lasted about three
years. In the meantime Armenia became member of the CoE, ratified the
European convention on Human Rights and its 6th protocol, eliminating
capital punishment once and for all.
The terrorists who cruelly shot the first officials of the country
were sentenced to life imprisonment.