RACIST MURDER IN SAMARA

Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, DC
April 4 2007

An ethnic Armenian man was killed in Samara, Russia by someone who
painted a racist slogan on the victim’s television set, according to
a March 30, 2007 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. On
March 25, Oganes Karapetian was found dead inside his own home. He
had suffered trauma to the head and several knife wounds; there was
no initial evidence of robbery. The killer or killers left the words
"Death to the churka" (a pejorative for people from the Caucasus)
written in the victim’s blood on his television screen. Police are
investigating the death as a murder possibly motivated by ethnic
hatred.