MANUK GASPARIAN’S SON BEATEN

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12 February, 2008

On February 12 over 40-50 armed men broke into Christ Gasparian’s
office. Gasparian was severely beaten. To remind, Christ is the son
of prematurely deceased Manuk Gasparian, Leader of the Democratic
Way Party (ZhUK).

"We learnt about the incident from Christ Gasparian’s colleagues who
didn’t want to give their names.

"Everything happened in a twinkling of an eye. All of a sudden over
40-50 armed men intruded into the office and began beating Christ
with empty bottles.

Immediately afterwards, they took flight," they said.

Minutes later Gasparian was taken to hospital where he was rendered
medical aid.

"I tried to intervene and help Christ but they threatened me with a
gun just on the doorway," said one of Gasparian’s friends.

"I wanted to protect Christ with my body as I am a stout man and could
resist the blows. But after hitting me on the head they forced me out,"
said the other.

"We do not know the reasons for the incident. They hardly uttered a
word. They only kept railing at us.

Christ recognized some of them."

To note, Manuk Gasparian had announced support for presidential
candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian before his untimely death.