MOSCOW, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS: A 19 year-old Armenian boy, Arthur Sardarian, was killed on May 25 in a train bound from Moscow to the town of Pushkin, where his family of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan lived. This was the second killing of an Armenian youth in one month. In late April a 17-year-old Armenian native Vigen Abramyants, a Moscow university student, was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of skinheads on a Metro platform. He died on the spot.
Abramyants’ murder prompted sharp criticism from the Union of Russian Armenians, whose chairman Ara Abrahamian, slammed Russian authorities for avoiding to classify these killings as racially motivated.
The second victim, Arthur Sardarian, was reportedly killed by a gang of skinheads. The police said he was stabbed to death receiving several knife strikes in his back and the heart and died immediately. Russian police have opened a criminal case into the murder classifying it as a hate crime. According to an eye-witness, the attackers, who chased the Armenian boy in the carriage before reaching him shouted’ Long Live Russia.” An eye-witness said the people in the car did not interfere.
The international human rights watchdog-Amnesty International, said in its latest report that racist killings in Russia were “out of control.” The Amnesty report, entitled “Russian Federation: Violent racism out of control”, includes examples of police and prosecutors routinely classifying murders and serious assaults by skinhead extremists as the lesser crime of “hooliganism”.
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