Stepan Demitchyan: Everything was done to hush up the case
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan has no doubts as to who stand behind the 1999 shooting in Armenian parliament. Accompanied by the parliament speaker and a group of lawmakers, Mr Abrahamyan today laid flowers and wreaths at the Armenian National Assembly’s park, near the monument to honor the memory of the October 27, 1999 terrorist act’s victims. The prime minister says the relevant did everything in time to reveal the crime. "Today we have what we have. If people still have any doubts concerning the parliamentary carnage, the relevant authorities should be consistent, but I am sure that everything was done in this regard. When the relevant bodies were studying the case everyone was eager to see the crime disclosed. People were waiting for answers. Do not think that they did not use all their resources,” he said. Stepan Demitchyan, Leader of the People's Party of Armenia (HZhK) and a lawmaker of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) was also at the park with his mother Rita Demitchyan and family members. “Everything was done to cover up the case. I hope that the truth will be known one day,” Stepan Demitchyan told reporters. On October 27, 1999, a group of armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan broke into the parliament building and shot eight people, including the country’s second and the third highest officials – Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan. The terrorist attack was viewed as unprecedented and one of the most controversial events in Armenian history since independence.
