"ORINATS YERKIR" AND "DASHINK" PARTIES CONDEMN ACT OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED TOWARDS "IRAVUNK" NEWSPAPER EDITOR

Noyan Tapan
Sept 08 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Dashink" (Alliance) party
political council made a statement in which it condemned the act of
violence committed on September 6 against "Iravunk" newspaper editor
Hovhannes Galajian, qualifying it as a hopeless step taken by weak
people. In the statement authors’ words, the happened was addressed
against free speech. The "Dashink" party political council called
on public, political unions and healthy forces of the society to
unite for establishing a democratic state in the RA and improvement
of free press. The "Orinats Yerkir" (Country of Law) party expressed
deep anxiety on the occasion of the act of violence committed towards
H.Galajian.

"Acts of violence committed against journalists show that there are
forces in Armenia for which the free press speech and independent way
of action are inadmissible and they do not limit themselves in choosing
criminal means to limit that speech," is said in the statement made
by the OYP press service. The party is also deeply concerned in the
sense of murders of public sonority taking place in Armenia during the
last period which are not revealed. According to the statement, "the
mentioned is becoming a part of our public life what is too dangerous
for future of the Republic of Armenia." Expecting implementation of
decisive actions by legal bodies, the OYP mentions that "if real-legal
estimations of the "Tsetsi krug" (shooting accident in the outskirts
of Yerevan in early this year) and other noisy murders were given in
time, we would not have such developments today."