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Death of March 1st Investigator: Traffic Accident or Political Killing?

Yesterday, Hetq reported that the body of 31 year-old Tigran Sahakyan, a police investigator who worked on the case related to the post-election public disturbances of March 1, 2008, was found on Bagrevand Street in the Nor Nork district. Police have claimed that the cause of death was a hit and run traffic accident. Artur Sakounts, who heads the Vanadzor Office of Helsinki Civil Assembly, has countered the police claim, saying that there are political overtones involved. "Sadly, in Armenia, there is a political context to everything, including the strange deaths of those sentenced to life imprisonment surrounding the events of October 27. In other words, nothing happens randomly," Mr. Sakounts said. He was referring to suspicious deaths of several of the seven men convicted in the October 27, 1999 deadly attack on Armenia’s parliament. One of the convicts, Norayr Yeghiazaryan, was found dead in pre-trial detention in 2000. Law enforcement authorities claimed at the time that he accidentally electrocuted himself to death while using a heating stove in his cell. Vram Galstyan, another convict, was found at Nubarshen Penitentiary. The prison administration claimed that he committed suicide. "One dies from electrocution, another gets hit by a car. They kill others day and night. Most definitely, nothing happens by chance," Sakounts stressed.

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