Stepan Demirchyan: October 27 Case will not be exposed under incumbent authorities

The October 27 Case will not be exposed under the incumbent authorities, says Stepan Demirchyan, the leader of the People's Party of Armenia, the son of Karen Demirchyan who was among those assassinated in the Armenian Parliament on October 27 1999.  Talking to ArmInfo, Demirchyan said, but for that terror assault, Armenia would have developed in quite different direction. "We can still feel the aftermaths of that terror assault. Look at the current situation in the country. They do everything to dismiss the October 27 Case," Demirchyan said.

Today the National Assembly of Armenia paid its tribute to the memory of victims of the 27 October 1999 act of terrorism.  

To recall, the Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27 was a terrorist attack on the Armenian National Assembly in the capital Yerevan on October 27, 1999, by a group of five armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan that, among others, killed the two de facto decision-makers in the country's political leadership - Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan. Sargsyan and Demirchyan were posthumously honored with National Hero of Armenia titles. The murderers also shot dead Yuri Bakhshyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Ruben Miroyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Leonard Petrosyan, Minister of Urgent Affairs, MPs Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Mikayel Kotanyan.  The five men were charged with terrorism aimed at undermining authority on 29 October. The five main perpetrators of the shooting (Nairi Hunanyan, his younger brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan, Derenik Ejanyan and Eduard Grigoryan) were sentenced to life in prison on December 2, 2003.  Hamlet Stepanyan was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Those behind that terror assault still remain unknown.