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    OPPOSITION LEADER CONDEMNS VILLAGE MAYOR'S MURDER

    http://armenianow.com/news/44927/raffi_hovannisian_proshyan_village_mayor_murder
    NEWS | 02.04.13 | 12:54

    Photo: kotayk.gov.am

    Hrach Muradyan

    Opposition Heritage party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is continuing
    his regional visits as part of a Barevolution campaign protesting the
    results of the February presidential election, has strongly condemned
    the murder of a village mayor reported earlier today.

    The dead body of Hrach Muradyan, the head of the village administration
    in Proshyan in Armenia's Kotayk province, was found near the
    administration building earlier on Tuesday. Police confirmed this
    information but did not immediately report on other circumstances of
    the crime. The 50-year-old man was found with a fatal gunshot wound
    temple. The police said the shot had been made by a yet unidentified
    gunman.

    Hovannisian, who has designed his provincial visits as a means to
    drum up local support for an upcoming rally in Yerevan as well as
    to put more pressure on local leaders whom he has accused of rigging
    the election in favor of the incumbent, called the murder an example
    of fratricide as he addressed residents of the Aragatsotn region
    community of Talin today.

    "This crime must be duly solved and law-enforcement bodies must make
    every effort for that," said Hovannisian, according to media.

    The killed village mayor was a member of the opposition Dashnaktsutyun
    party, which has triggered allegations that his murder could be linked
    to politics.

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