Armenia commemorates 1999 parliament terror attack victims
09:45 27/10/2012 » Society
Today Armenia commemorates the victims of the 1999 parliament terror
attack. A memorial ceremony will be held today in the Armenian
National Assembly’s park, near the monument to those killed in the
terror attack.
On October 27, 1999, a group of five terrorists broke into the
parliament hall and killed Armenian MPs and government members:
parliament speaker Karen Demirchyan, Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan,
vice speakers of parliament Yuri Bakhshyan and Ruben Miroyan, MPs
Michael Kotanyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Henrik Abramyan and Leonard
Petrosyan.
Source: Panorama.am
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