GURGEN MARGARYAN TO BE COMMEMORATED IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
18.02.2009 17:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and
top officership of the Armenian Armed Forces will lay a wreath to
Gurgen Margaryan’s tomb in Yerablur Pantheon on occasion of the 5th
anniversary of the murder of the Armenian officer, the RA Defense
Minister’s spokesman, col. Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net.
On January 11, 2004, lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan left for Budapest
to participate in a three-month English language course which was
part of the Partnership for Peace NATO-sponsored program. On February
19, he was axed, while asleep, by a fellow Azerbaijani participant,
lieutenant Ramil Safarov.
Safarov was given a life sentences without a right to pardon during
30 years.
In February 2007, the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict.