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GURGEN MARGARYAN'S KILLING IS ONE-TIME GENOCIDE - ARMENIA MOD (PHOTOS)
February 19, 2014 | 15:10
YEREVAN. - The killing of Gurgen Margaryan is one-time genocide.
Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan stated the aforementioned
Wednesday, at the event devoted to the ten-year anniversary of the
murder of Margaryan (PHOTOS).
"Ten years have passed [since his death], and we have come to pay
tribute to the Armenian officer. They killed our officer just for
being Armenian, and the perpetrator confessed that he had prepared
to kill an Armenian," Ohanyan said.
In the defense minister's words, heroes are those people who today
defend the Armenian homeland on the frontlines, retaliate to the enemy
attacks, and, if need be, become heroes at the cost of their lives.
"As for them [i.e., Azerbaijan], heroes are those people who can axe
[to death] at night," Seyran Ohanyan added.
The participants in the commemoration event placed flowers underneath
Gurgen Margaryan's bust, and stood a minute of silence in his memory.
Subsequently, all those present at the event headed to Yerablur
Military Pantheon of capital city Yerevan, where they paid tribute
at the tomb of the Armenian officer.
Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was
extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary, where he was serving a
life sentence--and with no expression of either regret or remorse--for
the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan,
in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest
on February 19, 2004. Safarov had planned on killing the other Armenian
military serviceman, who likewise was attending the aforesaid program,
but he was unable to carry out this plan.
Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder,
by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's government and much
of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately
granted him a pardon, he was declared a national hero, promoted to
a higher military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012
that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also,
Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to
petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect
to the Safarov case.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning was condemned by virtually all international
organizations.
The Armenian party had applied to the European Court of Human Rights
in February 2013, in connection with the Ramil Safarov case. The
complaint was with respect to Articles 2 and 14 of the European
Convention on Human Rights.
http://news.am/eng/news/195021.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7a_06OYPc
February 19, 2014 | 15:10
YEREVAN. - The killing of Gurgen Margaryan is one-time genocide.
Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan stated the aforementioned
Wednesday, at the event devoted to the ten-year anniversary of the
murder of Margaryan (PHOTOS).
"Ten years have passed [since his death], and we have come to pay
tribute to the Armenian officer. They killed our officer just for
being Armenian, and the perpetrator confessed that he had prepared
to kill an Armenian," Ohanyan said.
In the defense minister's words, heroes are those people who today
defend the Armenian homeland on the frontlines, retaliate to the enemy
attacks, and, if need be, become heroes at the cost of their lives.
"As for them [i.e., Azerbaijan], heroes are those people who can axe
[to death] at night," Seyran Ohanyan added.
The participants in the commemoration event placed flowers underneath
Gurgen Margaryan's bust, and stood a minute of silence in his memory.
Subsequently, all those present at the event headed to Yerablur
Military Pantheon of capital city Yerevan, where they paid tribute
at the tomb of the Armenian officer.
Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was
extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary, where he was serving a
life sentence--and with no expression of either regret or remorse--for
the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan,
in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest
on February 19, 2004. Safarov had planned on killing the other Armenian
military serviceman, who likewise was attending the aforesaid program,
but he was unable to carry out this plan.
Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder,
by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's government and much
of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately
granted him a pardon, he was declared a national hero, promoted to
a higher military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012
that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also,
Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to
petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect
to the Safarov case.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning was condemned by virtually all international
organizations.
The Armenian party had applied to the European Court of Human Rights
in February 2013, in connection with the Ramil Safarov case. The
complaint was with respect to Articles 2 and 14 of the European
Convention on Human Rights.
http://news.am/eng/news/195021.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7a_06OYPc