BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 14. The group led by
Murad Petrosyan additionally included Armenian people generally known as Artur
(nicknamed “Afghan”), Sasun, Ashot, Samvel, and Karo. This
data was revealed within the testimony of witness Artur Abramyan
through the ongoing courtroom hearings on the Baku Army Court docket on
Monday, Pattern
experiences.
The witness said that he had discovered from Samvel {that a} rocket
had been launched on the metropolis of Shusha from the Topkhana forest by
Samvel himself, along with Ashot, Karo, Sasun, and Artur. Their
goal was to focus on the civilian inhabitants of Shusha.
In line with the testimony, monetary help to the Armenian
armed teams working in Azerbaijani territories was supplied from
Yerevan. The funds had been reportedly despatched by helicopter to the
sovereign territory of Azerbaijan by Vazgen Manukyan, then Deputy
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Armenia, via his associates.
The cash was acquired in Khankendi by Robert Kocharian, who
personally handed it over to Murad Petrosyan on a number of events.
Petrosyan subsequently distributed the funds amongst members of
Armenian armed teams lively on Azerbaijani soil.
In early October 1989, Murad Petrosyan met together with his group
members—Akop, Abo, Slavik, Ashot, and Gago—and instructed them to
blow up a bridge on the street as a part of a plan to blockade town
of Shusha.
Throughout a further witness interrogation performed through video
recording on June 28–29, 1991, Artur Abramyan repeated statements
constant together with his earlier testimony. He once more confirmed that
through the battle, unlawful armed teams working on Azerbaijani
territory acquired monetary help from Vazgen Manukyan and Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, stating that the funds had been acquired in Khankendi by
Robert Kocharian.