Armenian National Congress says Robert Kochairan, Serzh Sargsyan are responsible for 1999 act of terrorism

“Ten years ago, on October 27, 1999, an unprecedented and horrible crime took place in Armenia.  During a parliamentary session, National Assembly (NA) Speaker Karen Demirchyan, Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Deputy Speakers Ruben Miroyan and Yuri Bakhshyan, MPs Henrik Abrahamyan, Mikael Kotanyan and Armenak Armenakyan, and government member Leonard Petrosyan were shot," the statement said.

“[What took place on] October 27 is not a terrorist act committed solely against individuals, well-known politicians-government workers, or the country’s high-ranking officials. The crime itself, with its consequences all the more, became one of the darkest days in Armenia’s history: democracy was shot down, the result of Armenia’s last democratic election was obliterated."

"Then president Robert Kocharian took the position of a detached observer in the creation of block "Unity" (Vazgen Sargsyan and Karen Demirchyan) and was not only able to prevent a fair trial, but took over defense of murderers and their helpers. The court turned to clowning and closed case."

"He hid all those traitors who quickly moved into his camp. Doubts of the society that originated at the beginning, according to which Kocharian was behind this crime, gradually turned to  conviction," the statement said.

"It was also revealed that the National Security Service headed by Serzh Sargsyan was aware of the impending attacks in advance and did nothing to prevent it."

“The act of October 27 was a terrorist usurpation of power realized through a state coup. With that, terrorism, as such, became the administration’s main tool in maintaining and reproducing authority in the future: directed not only against individuals, but also against the entire public."

“The act of October 27, is not a completed act, a murder against people, state officials, but a continuous terrorist act-in-process, a treachery against Armenian statehood, against Armenia’s state security and so far continues to bring about disasters that are fatal for the nation."

“Neither uncovered nor sentenced, the consequences of October 27 not only are not recovering, but the crime still continues today with more disastrous and fatal for the nation episodes that materialize more with time," it said in a statement.

/Tert.am/