TESTIMONY OF EYE-WITNESSES OF THE TERRORIST ACT WERE AGAIN HEARD TODAY IN STEPANAKERT

PanARMENIAN.Net - 30.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The testimony of eye-witnesses were again heard today at the court session on the case of the terrorist act against RNK President Arkady Ghukasian.

As the correspondent of MEDIAMAX reports from Stepanakert, three residents of house 22 in the Yerevanian avenue, near which the assassination attempt was made, confirmed their preliminary statements, that on the night of the terrorist act they heard machine-gun, and later pistol shots. After it they saw the fired car of the Nagorno Karabakh President and one of the wounded, who was taken to hospital by a white "Zhiguli".

Hrant Tzaturian, the cousin of RNK ex defense minister Samvel Babayan, stated that on March 23, learning that Babayan was arrested, told his brothers Henrikh and Valerie that "it's necessary to hide S. Babayan's arms, kept in the garage, as soon as possible".

The trial of the accused of the case of March 22 terrorist act against RNK president Arkady Ghukasian began on September 18 in Stepanakert. The main accused of the case is RNK ex defense minister, Lieutenant-General Samvel Babayan. -0-