Tweet
"THE CASE IS LEFT UNREVEALED": 15 YEARS SINCE OCTOBER 27
10.27.2014 18:09 epress.am
Today, is the 15th anniversary of the October 27, 1999 terrorist
operation in the Armenian Parliament. On that wednesday evening,
at around 5pm, Nairi Hunanyan, Karen Hunanyan, Edvard Grigoryan,
Vram Galstyan, and Derenik Bejanyan stormed into the Armenian National
Assembly and opened fire directed toward Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan
and NA Speaker Karen Demirchyan. The later two, as well as, the NA
deputy-speaker Yuri Bakhshyan, Ruben Miroyan, MPs Mikayel Kotanyan,
Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, and Minister of Emergency
Situations Leonid Petrosyan were killed.
After the incident, Armenian official sources did not confirm the
terrorist act for a few hours, and at around 10pm, a statement was
released from the President's office, stating that there were deaths
and injured at the National Assembly. President Robert Kocharyan had
met with the terrorists and negotiated with them until the dawn of
October 28, when the terrorists turned themselves in after receiving
security guarantees.
The trial of Nairi Hunanyan's group began on October 27, 2001 and
lasted nearly 3 years. Everyone that had stormed the National Assembly
were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The October 27 trial process and verdict did not satisfy a group
of Armenian political players. Vazgen Sargsyan's brother, the
Hanrapetutyun Party president Aram Sargsyan, and Karen Demirchyan's
son, Armenia's People's Party President Stepan Demirchyan, continually
stated that other figures were behind Hunanyan's actions, whose
names were not revealed during the trial. The two political figures
supported the political movement created by former-President Levon
Ter-Petrosyan in 2007, leading to the Armenian National Congress
alliance, in which the members would state before and after the 2008
presidential elections that 2nd and 3rd President Robert Kocharyan and
Serzh Sargsyan (since 1999, Sargsyan was head of the National Security
Ministry (now Service) were guilty of the October 27 shootings.
In an interview with Stepan Demirchyan, he stated in numerous
instances that the current administration will not reveal the October
27 case. Aram Sargsyan claims that the authorities who came after
October 27, have "their names connected to October 27,"because they
do not want to to reveal the case.
One of the suppositions to October 27, is that the killings were
organized by the Russian Spetsnaz. In 2005, former USSR and Russian
Spetsnaz employee, Aleksander Litvinenvo, gave an interview for "Realny
Azerbaijan" about the operation. The Russian embassy in Armenia denies
Litvinenvo's statement, however, the latter has stated multiple times
that the "Russian Spetsnaz is a terrorist organization."
In April and May of this year the Hraparak paper published a series
of articles about the October 27 case. In one article the author,
Mariam Kostantyan, wrote a list of individuals related to the case
who had died, while in another article the author claims that Tigran
Nazaryan, a US resident and witness to the killings, sent a recording
to the Armenia in regards to the case.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/10/27/%E2%80%9Cthe-case-is-left-unrevealed%E2%80%9D-15-years-since-october-27.html
10.27.2014 18:09 epress.am
Today, is the 15th anniversary of the October 27, 1999 terrorist
operation in the Armenian Parliament. On that wednesday evening,
at around 5pm, Nairi Hunanyan, Karen Hunanyan, Edvard Grigoryan,
Vram Galstyan, and Derenik Bejanyan stormed into the Armenian National
Assembly and opened fire directed toward Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan
and NA Speaker Karen Demirchyan. The later two, as well as, the NA
deputy-speaker Yuri Bakhshyan, Ruben Miroyan, MPs Mikayel Kotanyan,
Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, and Minister of Emergency
Situations Leonid Petrosyan were killed.
After the incident, Armenian official sources did not confirm the
terrorist act for a few hours, and at around 10pm, a statement was
released from the President's office, stating that there were deaths
and injured at the National Assembly. President Robert Kocharyan had
met with the terrorists and negotiated with them until the dawn of
October 28, when the terrorists turned themselves in after receiving
security guarantees.
The trial of Nairi Hunanyan's group began on October 27, 2001 and
lasted nearly 3 years. Everyone that had stormed the National Assembly
were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The October 27 trial process and verdict did not satisfy a group
of Armenian political players. Vazgen Sargsyan's brother, the
Hanrapetutyun Party president Aram Sargsyan, and Karen Demirchyan's
son, Armenia's People's Party President Stepan Demirchyan, continually
stated that other figures were behind Hunanyan's actions, whose
names were not revealed during the trial. The two political figures
supported the political movement created by former-President Levon
Ter-Petrosyan in 2007, leading to the Armenian National Congress
alliance, in which the members would state before and after the 2008
presidential elections that 2nd and 3rd President Robert Kocharyan and
Serzh Sargsyan (since 1999, Sargsyan was head of the National Security
Ministry (now Service) were guilty of the October 27 shootings.
In an interview with Stepan Demirchyan, he stated in numerous
instances that the current administration will not reveal the October
27 case. Aram Sargsyan claims that the authorities who came after
October 27, have "their names connected to October 27,"because they
do not want to to reveal the case.
One of the suppositions to October 27, is that the killings were
organized by the Russian Spetsnaz. In 2005, former USSR and Russian
Spetsnaz employee, Aleksander Litvinenvo, gave an interview for "Realny
Azerbaijan" about the operation. The Russian embassy in Armenia denies
Litvinenvo's statement, however, the latter has stated multiple times
that the "Russian Spetsnaz is a terrorist organization."
In April and May of this year the Hraparak paper published a series
of articles about the October 27 case. In one article the author,
Mariam Kostantyan, wrote a list of individuals related to the case
who had died, while in another article the author claims that Tigran
Nazaryan, a US resident and witness to the killings, sent a recording
to the Armenia in regards to the case.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/10/27/%E2%80%9Cthe-case-is-left-unrevealed%E2%80%9D-15-years-since-october-27.html