Ten Years Later, Deadly Shooting In Armenian Parliament Still Echoes

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Ten Years Later, Deadly Shooting In Armenian Parliament Still Echoes

[World]   rferl.org

"Ten years ago today, the tedium of an Armenian parliamentary question-and-answer session was shattered by shouts and the rattle of gunfire."

"Five heavily armed gunmen burst into the chamber, spraying a hail of bullets that left Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsian, parliament speaker Karen Demirchian, and several other leading politicians dead."

"Looking back a decade later, the parliament shooting marked the end of Armenia's development as an emerging democracy with balanced political and social institutions, and the beginning of its slide into a semi-authoritarian state dominated by a powerful president."


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