K. DEMIRCHYAN: “IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE REASON”
Support A1+!“Meghri issue was discussed on 23 October session of the Security Council upon Meghri request. That day Karen told us: “Do not tell anyone, but you should know if anything happens to me this will be the reason,- told Karen Demorchyan's widow Rima Demirchyan to “A1+”,-Later I understood that those words predicted the menacing grief”.
Rima Demirchyan felt the looming woe before 27 incidents. “I could not understand why I felt fear. Karen was also disturbed but I connected it with the tension at work. I was more troubled, when after the session of the Security Council, Karen completely changed. He became quieter, he did not joke as he used to do. In the evening on 26 October he even did not dine with us, he was sitting quietly and for the first time I advised him to talk to me, to share his thoughts to feel easier. He did not respond and went out to the balcony”.
On 27 October 1999 Rima Demirchyan was getting ready to see off her husband to work as she usually did. “I gave him a cup of fresh juice, as I used to do. It was the last time that I saw him alive”, told Mrs Rima.
“I was late for the lecture. I made the breakfast quickly and started to get ready for the work. I used to accompany him to the doors, even when he left home I used to call after him to see his face once again. I was late on 27 October morning and did not see off Karen. Once I told my daughter-in-law Toma that the atmosphere was so tensed that each time when I saw Karen off I felt I would not see him in the evening”.
“I spent the day as I usually did till 17 p.m. My friend was at my place and we were talking when Toma ran into the room and said that the TV announced about the shooting at the NA. It did not bother me as I thought that some armed deputies were quarreling, I even thought that Karen was there and he would smooth the tension. But later the fears arouse in me and I phoned Karen’s secretary who uttered something but I did not understand anything again. My friend said: “Do not worry, nobody would dare to raise a hand on Karen”, continued Mrs Rima.
By the way, Karen Demirchyan also thought that nobody would dare to harm him in Armenia and refused the services of bodyguards.
“But I knew that they came to the NA to harm him. I ran to the NA. Now I understand why everyone stared at me when I came to the NA. Everyone knew what had happened. But I did not realize the truth then, I tried to enter but no one allowed me. The driver also did not tell me anything. They convinced me that the armed people would shoot if they here footsteps. Thus, I came back home and sat at the TV. I had a hope that nothing would happen to Karen, maybe that hope made me stay alive,-Rima Demirchyan lost her hope at 22 p.m.,-When Moscow announced. You know what happen then. I lost my hope completely”.
Rima Demirchyan mentioned that the crime was not revealed, “quite the opposite, they did everything to conceal the facts. They tried to prove that they did not want to kill Demirchyan. Even the murderer announced that he did not want to kill Demirchyan. Some newspapers even mocked that if Karen had not spoken he would not have been killed”.
P.S. vMany years before the crime Karen Demirchyan wrote: “I condemn political murders or those political occurrences that result in murder. They are very dangerous especially when they are not revealed. It is absurdity to motivate them by not being capable of doing it or by other things. Authorities are obliged to reveal all kinds of crimes, particularly when they are of political character. And they perpetrators should be punished as strictly as the law allows”.
Diana Markosyan
