Parliamentary hearings to be held on Gyumri tragedy January 20
The Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the Armenian National Assembly is organizing on January 20 parliamentary hearings on the appalling crime in Armenia’s Gyumri city that left six members of the Avetisyan family killed in their home.
Six members of the Avetisyan family – Seryozha Avetisyan, his wife Hasmik, daughter Aida, son Armen, daughter-in-law Araksya, and two-year-old granddaughter Hasmik – were murdered in their home on January 12. Only the six month-old Seryozha Avetisyan survived the vicious murder, who was hospitalized with stab wounds in his chest. The six murders that occurred in Gyumri shocked residents of Armenia. Later on the same day Valery Permyakov, a Russian soldier stationed at military base No. 102 in Gyumri was arrested by Russian border guards and Armenian security forces when attempting to cross the border with Turkey. Permyakov confessed to the murders. He was reported to have deserted his post at night and gone on rampage, killing the six people of the Avetisyan family. The six-month-old Seryozha Avetisyan was later moved to the Surb Astvatsamayr (Holy Mother of God) Yerevan Medical Center. He remains in critical condition and is being treated at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
