Thursday, October 27 2016 16:29

ArmInfo. Armenian Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan is convinced that the October 27 1999 terrorist act in the Armenian Parliament was organized by foreign  forces.   

Sahakyan told reporters that all those involved in the terrorist  attack were detected and arrested. "I think Armenians would be unable  to organize such a terrorist attack," he said.   

Stepan Demirchyan, the son of the then Speaker of the Armenian  Parliament Karen Demirchyan, who was killed in the terrorist attack,  does not rule out either that the attack was organized by external  forces.  "Anyway, the crime was committed by the hands of the enemy  from within," he stressed, adding that the October 27 attack was a  serious blow against the state and the people. "The consequences of  this crime have not been overcome yet. Everything possible was done  to prevent the disclosure of the crime," he said.     

For his part, Head of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Faction  Levon Zurabyan said that the details of the Oct 27 terrorist attack  will not be disclosed until the power is shifted in the country.  "Disclosure of such crimes is a matter of national security," said,  noting that it should be the priority of the authorities to disclose  the customers of the crime. "However, this was done during the term  of neither the second nor the third president. This demonstrates  their complicity in the crime," he said. 

To note, today the National Assembly of Armenia paid tribute to the  memory of the victims of the 27 October 1999 act of terrorism in the  parliament. Earlier today, the parliamentarians laid flowers to the  memorial for their killed colleagues.  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.