{"id":242317,"date":"2013-10-29T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=242317"},"modified":"2013-10-29T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:26:06","slug":"unsolved-murder-of-dashnak-village-head-hrach-muradyan-sparks-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/29\/unsolved-murder-of-dashnak-village-head-hrach-muradyan-sparks-outcry.html","title":{"rendered":"Unsolved Murder of Dashnak Village Head Hrach Muradyan Sparks Outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">With calls of &quot;the state killed Hrach Muradyan&quot; and &quot;We demand to identify and punish the real perpetrators of the crime,&quot; several dozen residents of the village of Proshyan in Kotayk marz (province), Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) representatives, activists, and war veterans protested outside the president&#39;s residence in central Yerevan today.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to demonstrators, the 2010 attempted murder of Karabakh War veteran, ARF-D member, and Proshyan village head Hrach Muradyan and the 2011 attack on Proshyan village municipality concluded with Muradyan&#39;s murder on Apr. 2, 2013, and till today, with the authorities&#39; implicit permissiveness, the perpetrators have not been identified.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFriends of the murdered village head are dissatisfied with the 7-month-long investigation, believing that the &quot;forces&quot; that carried out the crime are contributing to the case not being solved.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDemonstrators handed over a letter to the letters division of the president&#39;s residence, asking Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to take immediate control of the disclosure of the murder case and ensure a complete and comprehensive investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to the Epress.am correspondent, many of the village residents said they are afraid of speaking in front of the camera because they are constantly being threatened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Everyone&#39;s afraid, why not? Today they can kill us too. Look, the forces have come [referring to the police]; supposedly there are few demonstrators. They just announced on their walkie-talkie, they were saying, &#39;Should we get closer or no?&#39; Let them shoot; let&#39;s be done with it &mdash; let them know, the last Armenians were massacred and that&#39;s it. Our state is not interested in the death of heros,&quot; said Muradyan&#39;s friend Aleksan Smbatyan, adding that threats are not heard only in Proshyan: &quot;Living in Armenia is itself a threat.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GahsXROMRG8?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to demonstrators, the 2010 attempted murder of Karabakh War veteran, ARF-D member, and Proshyan village head Hrach Muradyan and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}