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OPPOSITION LEADER CONDEMNS VILLAGE MAYOR'S MURDER
http://armenianow.com/news/44927/raffi_hovannisian_proshyan_village_mayor_murder
NEWS | 02.04.13 | 12:54
Photo: kotayk.gov.am
Hrach Muradyan
Opposition Heritage party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is continuing
his regional visits as part of a Barevolution campaign protesting the
results of the February presidential election, has strongly condemned
the murder of a village mayor reported earlier today.
The dead body of Hrach Muradyan, the head of the village administration
in Proshyan in Armenia's Kotayk province, was found near the
administration building earlier on Tuesday. Police confirmed this
information but did not immediately report on other circumstances of
the crime. The 50-year-old man was found with a fatal gunshot wound
temple. The police said the shot had been made by a yet unidentified
gunman.
Hovannisian, who has designed his provincial visits as a means to
drum up local support for an upcoming rally in Yerevan as well as
to put more pressure on local leaders whom he has accused of rigging
the election in favor of the incumbent, called the murder an example
of fratricide as he addressed residents of the Aragatsotn region
community of Talin today.
"This crime must be duly solved and law-enforcement bodies must make
every effort for that," said Hovannisian, according to media.
The killed village mayor was a member of the opposition Dashnaktsutyun
party, which has triggered allegations that his murder could be linked
to politics.
http://armenianow.com/news/44927/raffi_hovannisian_proshyan_village_mayor_murder
NEWS | 02.04.13 | 12:54
Photo: kotayk.gov.am
Hrach Muradyan
Opposition Heritage party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is continuing
his regional visits as part of a Barevolution campaign protesting the
results of the February presidential election, has strongly condemned
the murder of a village mayor reported earlier today.
The dead body of Hrach Muradyan, the head of the village administration
in Proshyan in Armenia's Kotayk province, was found near the
administration building earlier on Tuesday. Police confirmed this
information but did not immediately report on other circumstances of
the crime. The 50-year-old man was found with a fatal gunshot wound
temple. The police said the shot had been made by a yet unidentified
gunman.
Hovannisian, who has designed his provincial visits as a means to
drum up local support for an upcoming rally in Yerevan as well as
to put more pressure on local leaders whom he has accused of rigging
the election in favor of the incumbent, called the murder an example
of fratricide as he addressed residents of the Aragatsotn region
community of Talin today.
"This crime must be duly solved and law-enforcement bodies must make
every effort for that," said Hovannisian, according to media.
The killed village mayor was a member of the opposition Dashnaktsutyun
party, which has triggered allegations that his murder could be linked
to politics.