Acting Defense Minister: The events of October 27, 1999 will be  revealed, regardless of who holds the power in the country

ArmInfo.Everything will be revealed, regardless of who holds the power in the country, time will do its work. On October 27, in a conversation with journalists in the  Yerablur military pantheon, David Tonoyan, Acting Defense Minister,  made a statement, referring to the terrorist attack in the parliament  on October 27, 1999.

"The loss of our Sparapet (commander-in-chief) is irreplaceable; I  cannot find words to describe the cruelty that occurred on October 27  and that injustice, in particular, against our Sparapet," Tonoyan  said.  The Acting Minister of Defense added that the events of  October 27 will be revealed sooner or later. "I am sure that in the  course of time everything will be revealed, regardless of who is in  power, time will do its work and if in fact there were customers,  their names will be revealed," he noted.  To recall, this morning the  acting defense minister, accompanied by the defense ministry  officials, visited the Yerablur military pantheon and laid flowers at  the grave of Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan.

The Armenian parliament shooting, commonly  known in Armenia as  October 27 was a terrorist attack on the Armenian  National Assembly  in the capital Yerevan on October 27, 1999, by a  group of five armed  men led by Nairi Hunanyan that, among others,  killed the two de  facto decision-makers in the country's political leadership - Prime  Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker  Karen Demirchyan.  Sargsyan and Demirchyan were posthumously honored  with National Hero  of Armenia titles. The murderers also shot dead  Yuri Bakhshyan,  Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Ruben Miroyan,  Deputy National  Assembly Speaker, Leonard Petrosyan, Minister of  Urgent Affairs, MPs  Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Mikayel  Kotanyan.  

The five men were charged with terrorism aimed at undermining  authority. The five main perpetrators of the shooting  (Nairi  Hunanyan, his younger brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram   Galstyan, Derenik Ejanyan and Eduard Grigoryan) were sentenced to   life in prison on December 2, 2003.