ARAM KARAPETIAN: ATTEMPTED MURDER COMMITTED AGAINST VARDAN GHUKASIAN WAS WARNING TO SOME PEOPLE IN POWER
Noyan Tapan
Apr 09 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The armed attack on the mayor of
Gyumri Vardan Ghukasian and people accompanying him on April 2 can
be considered as a "political slaughter". Chairman of the "New Times"
party Aram Karapetian expressed this opinion during a interview to NT
corrrespondenr. In his words, this attempted murder was a "warning
to some people currently in power." In response to the question
"who are those who ordered and committed this act", A. Karapetian
said that in the given case several forces could be interested in
liquidating V. Ghukasian. According to the leader of the "New Times"
party, this might happen because of a clash of 2-3 groupings in power,
as well as a result of instructions given from "outside".
A. Karapetian said that in recent years the number of murders and
attempted murders has sharply increased in Armenia, at the same time
the crime detection rate has declined. In his opinion, this low crime
detection rate and impunity are the reasons of the current criminal
atmosphere.
Speaking about activities of the Anticriminal Movement, Aram Karapetian
noted that over the eight months of the organization’s work, the
greatest success registered has been making public the names of
criminal elements in politics and presenting facts about their criminal
activities to the RA Prosecutor General’s Office. He reminded that
among these persons are the RA minister of territorial governance
Hovik Abrahamian, the justice minister Davit Harutyunian, the head
of the National Security Service Gorik Hakobian and other officials.