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JOURNALIST'S CAR BURNT

Regions

On April 1 at about 3:30 a.m. the «Niva» brand car of Samvel Alexanyan, chief editor of the newspaper «Syunats Yerkir» was burnt in the yard of his house in Goris. The policemen and the firefighters who arrived at the place of incident were not able to save the car.

The press club «Asparez» of Gyumri considers this the following expression of the terrorist act of the Syunik region governor towards the newspaper «Syunats Yerkir». According to Levon Barsegyan, head of the club, the reason for what happened was Samvel Alexanyan's interview to the newspaper «Novoye Vremya» on March 12, after which the editor received many messages from the governor of the region by means of other people and anonymous night calls.

According to Samvel Alexanyan, there is not a second person in Goris who were able to burn a car. Only the ignorant Sourik Khachatryan is able to do such a thing. The chief editor of the newspaper refuses to give any explanation to the Syunik region police announcing more than once that the RA Constitution does not work in the region and in case of being objective any policeman can appear in the same situation as he.

It was still last week when S. Alexanyan sent a letter to RA President Robert Kocharyan about the anti-constitutional situation created in Syunik. We again address the question raised in the letter to Mr. Kocharyan: why do you punish the Syunik region? Should a whole region be sacrificed to satisfying the appetite of a bandit?