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    MYSTERIOUS DEATHS: OCTOBER 27 WITNESSES DIED UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES

    17:58 | October 27,2014 | Politics

    Fifteen years have passed since the October 27, 1999 terrorist act in
    the Armenian parliament. On that day, a group of armed men spraying
    automatic gunfire swept into the parliament, killing Armenian Prime
    Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Speaker Karen Demirtchyan and
    several other leading politicians. Fifteen years have passed since
    the tragedy but the perpetrators of the crime have not been identified
    to this day.

    The investigation that lasted for 2 years and nine months did not yield
    any results. According to official reports, all possible investigative
    measures and operations were performed; they conducted numerous
    confrontations, inspections, seizures and appointed examinations,
    studied and reviewed numerous documents. However, the long trial of the
    gunmen failed to shed light on key questions, including how the armed
    gunmen led by former journalist Niari Hunanyan were able to get an
    accreditation to parliament through Armenian state television, or how
    the men were able to get their weapons and ammunition into the chamber.

    Tigran Nazaryan, a key witness of the case, died unexpectedly in
    the United States in March 2014. Nazaryan was the man who spent
    two hours with Nairi Hunanyan after the October 27, 1999 terrorist
    attack and who testified by telephone from the US giving details from
    the private conversation between Hunanyan and then-President Robert
    Kocharyan. Nazaryan said the conversation could, in fact, be recorded
    as there were all technical conditions. This means, he either admits
    that there is such recording, or makes everyone understand that its
    'non-existence' is strange.

    It is more amazing that in 2000 the Public television sent its
    correspondent [Tigran Nazaryan] to the US and then suspended the
    contract with him, depriving him of the opportunity to return to his
    homeland. Nazaryan even gave an interview to one of the newspapers,
    saying he was subjected to pressure and intimidation and was said he
    would lose his life if he ever returned to Armenia. Tigran Nazaryan
    could have answered many questions if he were alive...

    Several people who were somewhat linked to the October 27 parliamentary
    carnage died under suspicious circumstances

    In 2000, Norayr Yeghiazaryan, who had sold weapons to the gang, died
    under unknown conditions, allegedly died from electrocution, in an
    isolation cell in Nubareshen prison. Yeghiazaryan was an electrician.

    However, reports said that his head carried traces of blows which
    was immediately brushed away by officials.

    In 2002, Tigran Naghdalyan, 36, Chairman of the Board of the Armenian
    Public Television and a key witness of the case, was shot dead at the
    doorstep of his apartment. Armen Sargsyan (brother of assassinated
    Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan) was accused and imprisoned for
    Naghdalyan's murder, however, suspicion has surrounded Naghdalyan's
    death that he was assassinated as an October 27 witness.

    In 2004, Vram Galstyan (uncle of Nairi Hunanyan) committed suicide
    in prison by hanging from a bed sheet. Throughout his trial Galstyan
    claimed that authorities had injected him with psychotropic drugs,
    and that they pressured him to commit suicide "so that the truth
    remained unrevealed." Galstyan had been sentenced to life imprisonment.

    Several months later, National Assembly deputy Mushegh Movsisyan,
    47, another key witness of the case, died in a car accident on
    Aparan-Yerevan roadway. Movsisyan was the brother of Republican MP
    Arakel Movsisyan. After the accident, he underwent several surgeries
    but to no avail. He died in hospital without gaining consciousness.

    The same year, Roza Hovhannisyan, a nurse on the witness list, died
    in an accident in the US.

    Another witness in the case, Hasmik Abrahamyan, 45, an employee of
    the NA Protocol Department, was found hanged in the NA building again
    in 2004.

    In 2010, Hamlet Stepanyan, who was sentenced to 14 years for his role
    in the October 27 terrorist attack on the Armenian Parliament, was
    found dead in Nubarshen penitentiary. According to prison officials,
    Hamlet Stepanyan, 57, died of a heart attack but his attorney claimed
    that Stepanyan did not have any health problems. Stepanyan's sentence
    would have been completed in about three years. He was the third
    among six defendants of the controversial case who died in prison,
    leading human right defenders to question whether the death was by
    natural causes.

    Among the gunmen, who are serving their prison sentences, are Nairi
    Hunanyan and Karen Hunanyan, Derenik Bejanyan, Ashot Knyazyan and
    Edik Grigoryan.

    The latter had a stent implanted in his heart in October 29, 2013.

    Nairi Hunanyan also underwent surgery. He has once requested the
    court to review his sentence by changing life term with 20 years'
    imprisonment but his request has been rejected.

    The attorneys involved in the case claim that there is enough evidence
    [obtained during the investigation and trial ] to disclose the crime,
    i, of course, there is political will.

    http://en.a1plus.am/1199038.html

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