GURGEN MARGARYAN IS A GENOCIDE VICTIM
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The trial of the Azeri officer having axed the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan started yesterday in Budapest and was postponed till February 5, 2005.
Today more than 5.000 students and schoolchildren have held a protest action on the initiative of “Gurgen Margaryan” charitable social organization in Yerevan, which ended in a march in Tsitsernakaberd.
”Beginning from 5:00 AM of February 19, 2004 to this very day the world is unaware of what happened in Budapest. It wasn’t an ordinary murder. It is represented as if a Turk has killed an Armenian. Azerbaijanis affirm that during the war Armenians killed the parents and relatives of Ramil Safarov, so he couldn’t live calmly. In fact, those statements pursue another object. Azerbaijan once again tries to distort the historical events and facts”, publicist Zori Balayan said while making a speech.
According to the Armenian official sources, Safarov’s parents haven’t been from Jabrayil, as Azerbaijanis assert. Soon Zori Balayan will publish Safarov’s preliminary testimony, which had later been changed.
Writer Grigor Janikyan drew participants’ attention to the statement made by an Azeri MP who had said: “Ramil Safarov must be protected at a state level. He will return to the homeland in a year and will head military operations to obliterate thousands of Armenians. Armenians in Karabakh must be annihilated”.
The organizers of the action as well informed that in the beginning of the trial 100.000 Azerbaijanis – the participants of the signature collecting - had demanded Budapest Court to release Safarov. The participants of the meeting in Yerevan announced that Gurgen Margaryan was the victim of Genocide and demanded a due punishment for the criminal.
