A1 Plus | 13:31:49 | 01-04-2005 | Regions |

JOURNALIST’S CAR BURNT

On April 1 at about 3:30 a.m. the “Niva” brand car of Samvel Alexanyan,
chief editor of the newspaper “Syunats Yerkir” was burnt in the yard of
his house in Goris. The policemen and the firefighters who arrived at
the place of incident were not able to save the car.

The press club “Asparez” of Gyumri considers this the following
expression of the terrorist act of the Syunik region governor towards
the newspaper “Syunats Yerkir”. According to Levon Barsegyan, head of
the club, the reason for what happened was Samvel Alexanyan’s interview
to the newspaper “Novoye Vremya” on March 12, after which the editor
received many messages from the governor of the region by means of other
people and anonymous night calls.

According to Samvel Alexanyan, there is not a second person in Goris who
were able to burn a car. Only the ignorant Sourik Khachatryan is able to
do such a thing. The chief editor of the newspaper refuses to give any
explanation to the Syunik region police announcing more than once that
the RA Constitution does not work in the region and in case of being
objective any policeman can appear in the same situation as he.

It was still last week when S. Alexanyan sent a letter to RA President
Robert Kocharyan about the anti-constitutional situation created in
Syunik. We again address the question raised in the letter to Mr.
Kocharyan: why do you punish the Syunik region? Should a whole region be
sacrificed to satisfying the appetite of a bandit?