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Armenia Hostage Crisis Continues JULY 23, 2016 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXVII, NO. 1, Issue 4445 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF French Senate to Armenia Hostage Crisis Continues Discuss Armenian Genocide YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Pro- opposition gunmen are holding four police PARIS (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The French officers hostage, officials said Tuesday, July Senate will discuss the bill to outlaw the denial of 19, two days after they seized a police the Armenian Genocide in September, Armenia’s building, killing one officer and taking sev- public TV reports. eral hostages. The French National Assembly on July 1 voted The gunmen seized the police station on unanimously to penalize denial or trivialization of Sunday, before demanding Armenians take all crimes against humanity, including the to the streets to secure the release of jailed Armenian Genocide. opposition politicians. The amendment of a previous law, adopted in the first reading, criminalizes denial with one year (PHOTOLUR PHOTO) imprisonment and a 45,000 euro fine. The crimes included in the text are genocides, “other crimes against humanity,” “the crime of enslavement and exploitation of an enslaved per- son” and “war crimes.” City of Ani on UNESCO Demonstrators in Yerevan (Russia Times Photo) World Heritage List PARIS (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural situation without bloodshed,” far refused to surrender. Organization (UNESCO) cultural agency on Jirair Sefilian, second from left, as he was arrested in June Armenia’s first deputy police The hostages include Armenia’s Deputy Friday, July 15 added a ruined Armenian city inside chief Hunan Pogosyan told AFP. Police Chief General Major Vardan Turkey’s border to its World Heritage list, as it ele- Lines of police in flak jackets Yeghiazaryan and Yerevan Deputy Police vated eight other sites across the world to the list They released two hostages on Sunday and helmets gathered outside Chief Colonel Valeri Osipyan. ranking, AFP reports. and three more on Monday, the security the building Tuesday as parked trucks see HOSTAGES, page 2 The ruins of Ani, which lie outside the Turkish service said. Negotiations to end the situa- blocked off surrounding streets, an AFP city of Kars, was the capital of an Armenian king- tion peacefully were under way. photographer said. dom around the end of the first millennium, before “Talks are underway with the hostage- The gunmen, who have also captured a Two Citizens of Armenia Die its conquest in 1064 by Seljuk forces hastened a takers. We are doing our best to resolve the large arsenal of police weapons, have so decline then completed by the Mongol conquest In Devastating Nice Attack and an earthquake. In another sensitive inscription, UNESCO elevat- NICE, France (Public Radio of Armenia) ed to World Heritage status caves once inhabited — According to the Foreign Ministry of by Neanderthals in Britain’s overseas territory of Armenia, two Armenian citizens died dur- Gibraltar, which is claimed by Spain. ing the terror attack in Nice on July 14. They joined seven other sites including in Iran, “We inform with sorrow about another India, China, Micronesia and Spain in being added Armenian citizen died in Nice,” the state- to the World Heritage list at the meeting of ment said. Earlier the Foreign Ministry UNESCO in Istanbul. reported that an Armenian citizen was The ruined churches and secular buildings of Ani killed in the July 14 terrorist attack in Nice. are a hugely sensitive site, lying directly on the “Details are being clarified. The Armenian other side of Turkey’s closed border with Armenia. Consulate General in Marseille is in contact with the family of the victim for providing nec- essary assistance,” the MFA said. Arthur Abraham see NICE, page 20 Defeats Lihaug to Win WBO Middleweight Title President Sargsyan, US BERLIN (Boxingnews24.com) — Former two-divi- Secretary of Kerry Hold sion world champion Arthur Abraham defeated #15 WBO Tim Robin Lihaug (15-2, 8 KOs) by an Karabagh Talks in Warsaw 8th round knockout in super middleweight action on Saturday, July 16, at the Max Schmeling Halle, WARSAW, Poland (PanARMENIAN.Net) Prenzlauer Berg. With the victory, Abraham cap- — President Serzh Sargsyan on July 8 met tured the vacant WBO International super mid- with US Secretary of State John Kerry on dleweight title. the sidelines of the NATO Summit to discuss Abraham is 36. the Nagorno Karabagh conflict settlement. Starting the meeting, Sargsyan Henrikh Mkhitaryan expressed condolences over the deadly shootings in Dallas, Texas. As for the Karabagh issue, the president INSIDE Henrikh Mkhitaryan Debuts for hailed the efforts of the United States as a co-chair of the Organization for Security Manchester United and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group in establishing peace and stability in Koutoujian MANCHESTER, UK (Independent) — Henrikh Mkhitaryan is confident he can the South Caucasus region. play a leading role at Manchester United after delivering an encouraging display in see TALKS, page 2 the 2-0 pre-season friendly victory against Wigan Athletic. Program The Armenian joined the 20-time champions of England from Borussia Dortmund for £26m this summer as Jose Mourinho continues to renovate the squad he inherited from Louis van Gaal. Page 6 Mourinho gave Mkhitaryan 45 minutes in the first-half at the DW Stadium on Saturday afternoon to prove himself ahead of the trip to China for the International Champions Cup next week. Will Keane and Andreas Pereira scored the first goals of the Mourinho era as INDEX United strolled to victory against Wigan in a match which also featured a debut for Arts and Living . 13 £30m defender Eric Bailly and a return from injury for Luke Shaw. Armenia . 2,3 Community News. 6 Mkhitaryan said: “I would say it was a good game. The first half was a little bit Editorial . 18 difficult because we couldn’t score a goal. Secretary of State John Kerry , left, with International . 4,5 see MKHITARYAN, page 4 President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian 2 S ATURDAY, J ULY 2 3 , 2 0 1 6 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Examination Reveals Azerbaijanis Decapitated Armenian Serviceman When He Was Alive YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The preliminary inves- tigation of criminal cases that violated the interna- tional humanitarian law during the Azerbaijani aggression against Nagorno Karabagh in early April is underway at the General Military Investigative Department of Armenia. Under the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-office, the 18 bodies of Armenian soldiers were handled to the Armenian side on April 10. Police outside the police station where the hostages and hostage takers are holed up. (Photolur photo) The external examination of the bodies showed evi- dence of torture. Forensic examinations have been conducted to find out the causes of the death of each Armenian soldier. “By now we have the conclusions of the forensic Armenia Hostage Crisis Continues examinations of 7 soldiers, which prove the violation of international humanitarian law by the Azerbaijani HOSTAGES, from page 1 them later. for now. Those guys said they will side,” reads the release issues by the investigative Meanwhile, the friends of Colonel The Armenian government has made respond to it tonight at 7 p.m.” committee. The conclusion suggests that the 30-year Artur Vanoyan, killed during the attack a new proposal to gunmen holding four Both the NSS and the Armenian old Armenian major was beheaded while he was alive. of the police regiment in Yerevan on police officers hostage at a police sta- police have branded the attackers as Both hands of the major were also cut off when he July 17 by gunmen as well as colleagues tion in Yerevan, a member of their rad- “terrorists” and demanded their uncon- was alive. and MPs laid him to rest. ical opposition group said on Tuesday. ditional surrender. The evidence also shows that two more Armenian Vanoyan, 49, was married and had Alek Yenigomshian said he has been Yenigomshian said that although servicemen were beheaded after being killed. three children. acting as a go-between in negotiations the gunmen’s mobile phones were no Additional information will be provided after the con- The attackers have demanded the held the National Security Service longer reachable on Tuesday morning clusions of the forensic examinations of the other resignation of President Serzh servicemen are completed. Sargsyan and the release of detained opposition leader Jirair Sefilian. Prominent More than 1,500 anti-government protesters rallied in Yerevan on Bacteriologist Evrik Monday, calling for a peaceful resolu- tion to the crisis. Afrikyan Dies Sefilian — the leader of small opposi- YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Prominent bacteriolo- tion group the New Armenia Public gist, Doctor of Biological Sciences (1970), Professor Salvation Front — and six of his sup- (1972), Academician at the National Academy of porters were arrested in June after Sciences of Armenia (1982) and Honored Science authorities said they were preparing to Worker Evrik Afrikyan passed away at age 91. seize government buildings and tele- Born on May 14, 1925 in Yerevan, Afrikyan grad- coms facilities in Yerevan. uated from the Medical University of Yerevan in A fierce critic of the government, he 1947. was arrested in 2006 over calls for “a violent overthrow of the government” and jailed for 18 months. He was Import of Turkish Goods released in 2008. Last year, Sefilian and several of his To Armenia May Shrink supporters were arrested again on sus- by 20 Percent picion of preparing a coup, but released shortly afterwards. YERVAN (Arka) — If Armenian government bans (Stories from AFP, Reuters, Radio the import of 50 varieties of Turkish commodities, Free Europe and Armenpress were imports from Turkey may shrink 15-20 percent, used.) Vazgen Safaryan, the head of the Union of Domestic The hostage-takers’ main demand is A scene from outside the station (BBC Photo) Commodity Producers, told journalists on Monday, to free Jirair Sefilian, an opposition July 18.
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