The Sardarapat Movement has issued a statement strongly condemning the murder today of Proshyan village mayor Hrach Muradyan and ridiculing the “Safe Armenia” presidential campaign slogan of Serzh Sargsyan.

Muradyan was the child of a Syrian-Armenian family that repatriated to Armenia and a member of the ARF and its frontline units in the Artsakh War.

The mayor of Proshyan since 2005, Muradyan was also one of the founders of the Shushi Special Battalion.

Sardarapat says that Muradyan’s murder, like many other murders and manifestations of violence in Armenia, are the result of the criminal traits and immunity from prosecution that are the hallmarks of the ruling regime.

Sardarapat has demanded that the Armenian law enforcement get to the bottom of the crime and severely punish those responsible, otherwise the regime will share the blame for this crime as well.