ARMENIANS COMMEMORATE GURGEN MARGARIAN

Armenpress
Feb 19 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS: Hundreds of Armenians went today
to Yerablour cemetery on a Yerevan outskirt to commemorate the third
anniversary of a tragic death of Armenian army officer Gurgen Margarian
who was hacked to death by an Azeri office Ramil Safarov three years
ago in Budapest.

The commemoration was organized by Gurgen Margarian NGO together with
a regional chapter of the Republican Party in Achapnyak district of
Yerevan and Armenian defense ministry.

Last year a Hungarian court sentenced Ramil Safarov to life
imprisonment without the right to apply for parole for the next 30
years. Both were participants of an English language training course
within the framework of the NATO-sponsored "Partnership for Peace"
program held in Budapest, Hungary.