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    ANOTHER ARMENIAN YOUTH MURDERED IN RUSSIA

    Armenpress
    May 30 2006

    MOSCOW, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS: A 19 year-old Armenian boy, Arthur
    Sardarian, was killed on May 25 in a train bound from Moscow to
    the town of Pushkin, where his family of Armenian refugees from
    Azerbaijan lived.

    This was the second killing of an Armenian youth in one month. In
    late April a 17-year-old Armenian native Vigen Abramyants, a Moscow
    university student, was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of
    skinheads on a Metro platform. He died on the spot.

    Abramyants' murder prompted sharp criticism from the Union of Russian
    Armenians, whose chairman Ara Abrahamian, slammed Russian authorities
    for avoiding to classify these killings as racially motivated.

    The second victim, Arthur Sardarian, was reportedly killed by a gang of
    skinheads. The police said he was stabbed to death receiving several
    knife strikes in his back and the heart and died immediately. Russian
    police have opened a criminal case into the murder classifying it as
    a hate crime. According to an eye-witness, the attackers, who chased
    the Armenian boy in the carriage before reaching him shouted' Long Live
    Russia." An eye-witness said the people in the car did not interfere.

    The international human rights watchdog-Amnesty International, said
    in its latest report that racist killings in Russia were "out of
    control." The Amnesty report, entitled "Russian Federation: Violent
    racism out of control", includes examples of police and prosecutors
    routinely classifying murders and serious assaults by skinhead
    extremists as the lesser crime of "hooliganism".
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