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AXE-MURDERER VICTIM HONORED ON HIS 34TH BIRTHDAY
Asbarez
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
More than 3,000 people marched in Stepanakert to remember Gourgen
Margaryan
YEREVAN, STEPANAKERT-Memorial events were held in Armenia and the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Wednesday to honor Armenian Army officer
Gurgen Markarian who was brutally murdered by Azeri axe-murderer
Ramil Safarov while in Budapest in 2004.
Gurgen Markarian Markarian, who would have turned 34 Wednesday,
was honored at a special ceremony at Yerablur National Cemetery in
Yerevan after a march organized to the final resting olace for fallen
Armenian soldiers organized by Yerevan State University's 'Union of
Young Students' NGO, Yerkrapah Volunteer Union and Gurgen Margaryan NGO
"Every Armenian should realize that he could be in the place of
Gurgen Margaryan and become the victim of Azerbaijan's state policy,"
Gevorg Melkonyan, head of the 'Union of Young Students' NGO, said in
his remarks to participants.
"I express my condemnation of the Hungarian-Azerbaijani deal of
Safarov's extradition and announce on behalf of the Armenian youth
that we stand by our state and army."
Safarov, who was convicted of and was serving a life sentence for the
brutal hacking of Markarian, was extradited by Hungary to Azerbaijan
where he was immediately pardoned and turned into a national hero.
At the end of the march, participants laid flowers at the graves of
Vazgen Sargsyan, General Antranig and Gurgen Markarian.
More than 3,000 marched in the streets of Stepanakert, the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, to mark the slain soldier's birthday and
protest the injustice in Safarov's extradition.
Asbarez
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
More than 3,000 people marched in Stepanakert to remember Gourgen
Margaryan
YEREVAN, STEPANAKERT-Memorial events were held in Armenia and the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Wednesday to honor Armenian Army officer
Gurgen Markarian who was brutally murdered by Azeri axe-murderer
Ramil Safarov while in Budapest in 2004.
Gurgen Markarian Markarian, who would have turned 34 Wednesday,
was honored at a special ceremony at Yerablur National Cemetery in
Yerevan after a march organized to the final resting olace for fallen
Armenian soldiers organized by Yerevan State University's 'Union of
Young Students' NGO, Yerkrapah Volunteer Union and Gurgen Margaryan NGO
"Every Armenian should realize that he could be in the place of
Gurgen Margaryan and become the victim of Azerbaijan's state policy,"
Gevorg Melkonyan, head of the 'Union of Young Students' NGO, said in
his remarks to participants.
"I express my condemnation of the Hungarian-Azerbaijani deal of
Safarov's extradition and announce on behalf of the Armenian youth
that we stand by our state and army."
Safarov, who was convicted of and was serving a life sentence for the
brutal hacking of Markarian, was extradited by Hungary to Azerbaijan
where he was immediately pardoned and turned into a national hero.
At the end of the march, participants laid flowers at the graves of
Vazgen Sargsyan, General Antranig and Gurgen Markarian.
More than 3,000 marched in the streets of Stepanakert, the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, to mark the slain soldier's birthday and
protest the injustice in Safarov's extradition.