On October 27, 1999, a terrorist attack was carried out on the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, as a result of which RA NA Speaker Karen Demirchyan, Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and 6 other state figures and NA deputies were killed, 8 people were injured, and 91 were taken prisoner.

The terrorist group captured 91 people, mostly members of the National Assembly. Journalists covering the meeting were also captured, and the terrorists let them out after some time. The injured deputies and members of the government were also released after some time.

The remaining captives were released at dawn on October 28, after the terrorists laid down their weapons and surrendered.

The terrorists are: Nairi Hunanyan, Karen Hunanyan, Vram Galstyan, Derenik Bejanyan, Eduard Grigoryan.

According to the official version, Nairi Hunanyan, who carried out the terrorist attack, organized the operation on his own initiative, worked out the details, involved associates, with the help of which he acquired weapons and entered the National Assembly, and carried out all of that.

In 2013, the Wikileaks website published the former US ambassador to the Republic of Armenia in 2001-2004. of John Ordway the secret letter in which the latter writes about the events of October 27. The ambassador specifically emphasizes that the opposition blames the authorities, who hold the post of president Robert Kocharyan, to keep the entire process of crime detection under their own control. In particular, the ambassador writes:

“Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, relatives of the victims and opposition leaders mostly accuse Kocharyan of establishing his control over the trial, covering up important government information about the case, trying to strengthen his own political positions.”

Ordway emphasizes that Kocharyan and his supporters have categorically denied their involvement in the murders, and the embassy has never seen any evidence to the contrary.

Two years ago, he was a deputy of the “Yelk” faction Aram SargsyanFormer Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan brother, announced that the crime that took place in the National Assembly on October 27, 1999 will not be revealed under the current authorities. According to him, 99 percent of the public believes that these events are not revealed and only 1 percent claims that they are revealed.

“That 1 percent is in power, that 1 percent are the systems that include the judicial, legislative, and executive bodies, which see danger from revelations, will do everything to prevent the case from being revealed. Therefore, 99 percent of our public believes that the case will be revealed when there is a real change of power in Armenia, a change in the system,” Aram Sargsyan stressed.

In 2018, the government in Armenia changed. Today, a lot of people started talking about reopening the October 27 case. And the other day it became known that Nairi Hunanyan, a life convict of the “Yerevan-Kentron” penitentiary institution of the Ministry of Health, submitted an application for parole a month ago.

The Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia informs that a decision will be made in accordance with the law within 80 days.

Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan has already announced that the way out is clear: it will be rejected, but it is obvious that Nairi Hunanyan is becoming a political actor, because everyone urges him to speak and reveal the whole truth. And this can have dangerous prospects.