ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 27 2006
REAL ORGANIZERS OF TERRORIST ACT IN ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ON OCTOBER 27
1999 HAS NOT BEEN PUNISHED SO FAR: HEAD OF RPA FACTION
The real organizers of the terrorist act in the Armenian Parliament
on October 27 1999 has not been punished so far, said Galust
Sahakyan, Head of the Republican party faction, at a briefing in the
Armenian Parliament, Friday.
He said that only the persons who became instruments in the hands of
the organizers of the terrorist act have been arrested. "In a
definite period of time, it will become clear wherefrom the blow was.
I can only say that the terrorist act was organized by external
forces," he said.
In his turn, representative of the People’s Party of Armenia Stepan
Zakayan said that after the murder of the speaker Karen Demirchyan
and the prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan on October 27 1999, Armenia
has lost a definite part of its sovereignty. The incumbent
authorities are waging a policy of vassals. To prove his words, S.
Zakaryan said that the whole energy system of Armenia has been
transferred to Russia. "To prove their devotion to Georgia, Armenian
authorities have arrested one of the leaders of ‘United Javakhq’
organization Vahagn Chakhalyan, who was actively protecting the
rights of the Armenian community of Georgia," he said.
On October 27 1999 terrorists killed the speaker Karen Demirchyan,
the prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan, a number of parliamentarians and
government members. The terrorists were sentenced to life
imprisonment, except Hamlet Stepanyan, who was imprisoned for 14
years.