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    Gyumri slaughter: Official silence a month later

    18:58 | February 14,2015 | Social


    I cannot imagine how the Investigation Committee of the Republic of
    Armenia is going to investigate the murder of the seven-member
    Avetisyan family in Gyumri if the main suspect has not been handed
    over to the Armenian side, says Artur Sakunts, Head of the Helsinki
    Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office.

    "We still do not know the motives behind this hideous crime. It is
    equally important to understand why the murderer chose the Avetisyan
    family," he said.

    Today a public discussion was organized in Gyumri on the appalling
    murder of the Avetisyan family. The event was attended by 60 people.

    A month has passed since the murder but the law enforcement agencies
    have failed to provide reliable information on the tragedy," says
    Levon Barseghyan, chairman of Asparez Journalists' Club in Gyumri.
    The

    Daniel Ionnisyan, Coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens NGO,
    says, "Many details are kept confidential though the investigation was
    supposed to be transparent. The National Security Service and the
    Prosecutor General's Office have not given their replies yet."

    Three working groups were set up during the first public discussion
    which later submitted the results of their work. The groups involve
    journalists, lawyers and human rights activists, who wall develop and
    coordinate tactions aimed at solving the crime and preventing its
    repetition in the future.

    The working groups stress that today Armenia is facing serious
    problems in view of security.

    Six members of the Avetisyan family, including a two-year-old child,
    were shot dead in their house in Gyumri in the morning of January 12.
    A six-month-old baby, Seryozha Avetisyan, was hospitalized with stab
    wounds. He died in hospital a week later. The main suspect of the
    crime, Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of Russian Military Base N 102
    stationed in Gyumri, was detained by Russian border guards late in the
    same day while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border near
    Yerazgavors village in Armenia's Shirak province. The murder of the
    seven-member family sparked violent protests in Gyumri and Yerevan,
    with people demanding that Permyakov be handed over to Armenian
    authorities and to stand trial by the Armenian law.


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