Armenians marched through the streets of Yerevan today to demand that all those responsible for the beating death of army physician Major Vahe Avetyan be brought to justice.
It is with utmost sadness that Policy Forum Armenia has learned of the death of Major Vahe Avetyan, head of the ENT Department of the Yerevan Garrison Hospital, on June 28, 2012. He was severely beaten along with two other doctors on June 17 (on the premises of “Harsnaqar” restaurant owned by governing Republican Party MP, Ruben Hayrapetyan) by a large group of restaurant employees and Hayrapetyan’s personal bodyguards.
Eight faces of Vahe Avetyan among hundreds who attended a candlelight vigil at Harsnakar restaurant in Yerevan on June 30 honoring the slain army physician. Avetyan was savagely beaten at Harsnakar restaurant by Member of Parliament Rouben Hayrapetyan's personal bodyguards. Hayrapetyan, aka "Nemets Rubo," a notoriously brash oligarch with close ties to President Sargsyan, owns the restaurant where the fatal beating occurred. Two other...
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