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    Murders of the Avetisyans' family, the Russian No 102 military base in
    Gyumri and the worth of Gyumri residents

    January 19 2015


    On January 12, hours after shooting of the Avetisyan's family in
    Gyumri, it was already noticed that the case of felony is intended to
    be handed over into the hands of Russian law enforcement. "The Russian
    government bodies provide every kind of necessary support to Armenian
    government authorities to track down the culprits and bring them to
    justice," says the Russian Foreign Ministry press release a few hours
    after the crime. On the same day, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh
    Kocharyan received the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volynkin who
    mentioned that the Russian side is interested in sooner disclosure of
    the crime details and punishment of the culprits and bring the culprit
    to justice, and stressed, "The management of the Russian military base
    deployed in Gyumri is fully cooperating with the Armenian
    law-enforcers and supports the investigation." While under the
    Agreement on deployment of the Russian military base signed between
    Armenia and the Russian Federation, Article 4, the crimes committed by
    persons involved in the Russian military base in the territory of
    Armenia are subject to investigation by competent authorities of
    Armenia in a manner prescribed by the legislation, and Armenian
    competent bodies can also be used with regard to such persons. Though
    the investigation of felony in Gyumri by RA law enforcers is still no
    guarantee that the true causes of the crime, the organizers, if any,
    will be identified, nevertheless, many believes that the RA
    authorities will simply demonstrate principality in terms of
    protecting the interests of the citizens of Armenia, at least from the
    standpoint of propaganda reasons. On January 14, after the meeting at
    the President's residency followed by the multi-crowd protest in
    Yerevan and Gyumri, the Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan said, "I
    assure you that the criminal will be held criminally liable in the
    territory of the Republic of Armenia, and we will all see and have the
    chance to follow the entire procedure and see how he is brought to
    justice. The Republic of Armenia does not yield anything to anybody."
    At the meeting with the First Deputy Defense Minister David Tonoyan,
    Russian First Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin said that the
    Russian Defense Ministry Commission has completed its internal service
    investigation conducted at the Russian No 102 military base, and all
    the culprits are revealed. Bakhin also said that according to the
    Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, Valery Permyakov, a soldier
    of the Russian No 102 military base involved as a culprit by the filed
    criminal case, is in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, and
    under the criminal case, further works will be carried out by the
    relevant law enforcement agencies of Armenia and the Russian
    Federation. Bloody pages in the history of the Russian military base
    in Gyumri The January 12 murders refreshed the tragic events of the
    Russian military base in Gyumri happened in the past few years. On
    April 7, 2013, an incident happened in Vahramaberd community, Shirak
    Marz. Two children of village Vahramaberd, Mushegh Gevorgyan and
    Arthur Lazarian, were killed by the landmine explosion in the
    territory of Russian troops' tank shooting. It turned out that the
    landmine explosive in the site of the shooting took the lives of two
    village residents of Vahramaberd Village, A. Lazarian, born in 2001,
    and M. Gevorgyan, born in 1997. Arthur Lazarian's father had gone to
    the field to shepherd the sheep and the children had joined him. At
    the time of the incidents, the father had gone to fetch water, the
    children had seen the wheels and had gone close to play with them,
    when hitting, the mines exploded. Both families were large and live in
    extreme living conditions, the men of the families are shepherds. The
    Lazarians' family has 8 children, and the Gevorgyans' family - 6
    children. The mentioned area was given to the Russian Federation Armed
    Forces by interstate leasing agreement for 45 years. However, so far
    there are no punished, brought to liability, even in the event when
    the incident was an accident. So far, it is not clear why the
    territory was not cleared from the armor, or why the access there for
    unauthorized persons was not properly blocked. In April 19, 2013, GALA
    had informed the families of the two killed teenagers are unhappy. "As
    they said, the Russians had convinced, even frightened that "if they
    keep doing it," the case will be turned on them, and they managed to
    make the 10-year-old Arthur Lazarian's and 15-year-old Mushegh
    Gevorgyan's families to sign a document that allegedly they have no
    complaint and dissatisfaction. Thus, the job is completed, and the
    village continues to live as usual, taking the cattle to graze in the
    same territories where it is dangerous, and where the two juveniles
    were killed. God forbid, in the event of recurrence, they will
    declare, "The ones killed are to be blamed." In the interview with
    GALA, Vahramaberd Village Mayor Aghvan Martirosyan referred to the
    question that the families had signed underneath a paper that they do
    not complain. "If they have made such statements that they were made
    to sign that nothing of the kind has happened. They have said that
    they have written that they have no complaints. What remains to close
    the case is up to the Russian investigative bodies. We are not the
    ones to decide whether to close the case or not. No one from the
    Armenian side was involved in the investigation group, simply to be
    able to understand the language, there was one representative, who was
    for the translation work." The incident happened in April 1999 was
    more horrible by its cruelty, when two drunken Russian soldiers from
    the military base had come out to the town with rifles and had opened
    irregular fire right and left on people and the houses. In the result
    of these irregular firing, more than a dozen people were seriously
    injured and two were killed. The drunken soldiers were found guilty in
    the incident happened in 1999, but were extradited to Russia, now, we
    do not anything about their fates. Helplessness of the political field
    The mysterious silence that our society has witnessed in these days
    after the brutal murder of January 12 is just incredible. Even in
    responding to the crime, it turned out that our political parties and
    party leaders consider the "circumstances" of what nationality has the
    suspect in the crime. Even when expressing condolence to the relatives
    of the Avetisyan's family, it turns out that the political parties of
    Armenia, with some exceptions, are thinking about not offending the
    Kremlin. Social networks compared it to the incident happened in
    Podolsk in July 13 when the driver of the truck, RA citizen Hrachya
    Harutyunyan, was brought to the court dressed in a woman's gown, and
    until now, it is not possible to solve the issue of his transportation
    to Armenia. Or, they recalled Gurgen Margaryan's murder in 2004, when
    the murderer Ramil Safarov has been sentenced to life imprisonment for
    taking the axe and bludgeoning the Armenian army officer Gurgen
    Margaryan to death in 2007 during the NATO training course, later in
    August 31, 2012, Hungary extradited him to Azerbaijan, after which the
    Armenian government authorities froze their diplomatic relations with
    Hungary. Patriotic manifestations by Armenia's political parties, the
    occasion for organizing torchlight processions, are always the same.
    We, the Armenians, are united when remembering the genocide issue. For
    instance, Armen Rustamyan, commenting on the tragic murders in Gyumri,
    mentioned in this context that he is happy that "the anti-Russian
    manifestations are prevented." But on the other hand, what to expect
    for a political arena, where the majority considers justified and
    legitimate, or turns a blind eye on the selling of several billion
    dollars of weapon to Azerbaijan by the "strategic partner", but at the
    same time, "arguments" that "the Russians protect us from Turks" and
    ensures the security of Armenia and Karabakh. A protest action took
    place on January 14 in Gyumri; the public was frustrated. The Gyumri
    people were demanding to handover the Russian military soldier to the
    justice of the Armenian side in order to bring the responsible
    entities of the Russian side to a meeting, the protestors had dropped
    the Russian flags onto the ground and had thrown eggs at the building
    of the Russian Consulate. The protesters had reached the Russian No
    102 military base, where a fight had occurred between protesters and
    the police. While the "force" of the Armenian law enforcement falls on
    the Armenian citizens. Evidently, the Armenia-Russia relations are
    affected by the brutal murders of January 12, which is a negative
    fact. The murder of the Gyumri peaceful family members created tension
    between the Gyumri military base and the Gyumri residents, as well as
    caused uncertainty in the Armenian-Russian relationships. Yes, the
    Gyumri murders should not be politicized, but we can tell this when
    there are persuasive evidences that its being organized in the
    specific crime is excluded, or there are substantiations that the
    crime has not been committed on the background of national hatred.
    But, in many cases, our society is not interested in such minor
    things, and people have more convincing hypothesis. The profound
    explanation that the Turks are involved in the Gyumri murder, or the
    one from the West, seems that the Armenian and Russian law enforcement
    agencies have already presented facts on this, and what is left for us
    now is to believe them or not. The citizens, who had come out to
    protest in Yerevan and Gyumri on January 14, stood for the right of
    the RA citizen to live and our independent state. Unlike government
    and non-government, as said in a popular language, they kept the worth
    of our country.


    Emma GABRIELYAN
    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2015/01/19/168450/


    From: Baghdasarian
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