Samvel Harutyunyan, killed in Yerevan on Mar. 1, 2008, would’ve turned 32 on Monday. Recall, Harutyunyan was one of the 10 people killed as a result of excessive force used by national police and security forces who were called in to disperse mass protests disputing the 2008 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Harutyunyan’s relatives, along with members of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), paid a visit to the cemetery in the village of Lusarat in Ararat marz (province), then paid their respects at the Harutyunyans’ home.<\/p>\n
After leaving the Harutyunyans’ home, HAK members and a few parents of other Mar. 1 victims entered Khor Virap Monastery to light a candle, where they saw Koryun Piloyan, a prosecutor named in several court cases in connection with the events of Mar. 1\u20132, 2008. Piloyan had come to Khor Virap with guests visiting from abroad.<\/p>\n
Sargis Kloyan, father of Mar. 1 victim Gor Kloyan, told Epress.am that he approached Piloyan and said, “How are you, Piloyan, you’ve come to be absolved of your sins?”<\/p>\n
According to Kloyan, a little while later, one of the women in their group, seeing Piloyan, said, “You have no right to enter the church \u2014 this is not a place for people like you. March 1 criminal!”<\/p>\n
According to witnesses, after this, Piloyan began to curse at the women, saying “Fuck off” and calling them “international prostitutes.”<\/p>\n
One of the women, Violet Ghazaryan, approached the dean of the monastery (who had witnessed the exchange) and said: “I feel uncomfortable that a prosecutor of our country, within the walls of a church, in the presence of foreign visitors, is cursing women \u2014 did you hear it?”<\/p>\n
The dean said, indeed, he heard it, but he has no authority to say anything to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n
“But he will receive his punishment from God,” said the church attendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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