Death of investigator Sahakyan not accidental
Human rights activist Arthur Sakunts says the death of investigator Tigran Sahakyan was not accidental.
According to the RA Police, the investigator was struck by an unknown car yesterday midnight near the building of the RA Ministry of Defense.
"Unfortunately, everything has political overtones in Armenia, including the mysterious deaths of life-termers convicted of the parliamentary carnage of October 27. Nothing happens by chance," says Arthur Sakunts, Head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office.
The human rights activist says attempted murders are committed against people who hold certain information: the murderers fear lest the information should be divulged.
"Did Mheryan and Galstyan also die accidentally? One dies of electric shock, the other in a car accident, the third is killed in broad daylight," he said.
As to Armenian Defense Ministry's reaction to the alleged suicide of Armenian captive Manvel Saribekyan in Azerbaijan, Mr. Sakunts said, "The Armenian Ministry of Defense lay the responsibility of the death on the Azerbaijani MoD saying "Azerbaijan again blatantly violated the international humanitarian norms, particularly the Convention on treatment of war prisoners."
It is this impunity that killed Tigran Sahakyan.The same estimate should be given to Armenian authorities who failed to disclose the deadly events of March 1, thus promoting an atmosphere of permissiveness in Armenia and exercising violence against our citizens."
Tigran Sahakyan investigated the bloody clashes of March 1, 2008.
