The motive for the murder of the Avetisyan family, in Armenia’s Gyumri city, is still a mystery.

Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Director, human rights activist Artur Sakunts stated the aforementioned at Saturday’s respective public debate in Gyumri.

“There is nothing at this time, except for the general thing that terrorism was committed against Armenian citizens,” Sakunts added.

In his words, the Armenian public’s demand, according to which the Armenian Prosecutor General petition to his Russian counterpart with a request for examining the murder case in Armenia, is not yet met, and therefore this demand shall continue.

Artur Sakunts also noted that the Russian military base command’s comment on what had occurred, and which has not yet been made, is important, too.

As reported earlier, six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12; and the baby boy died in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border on the same night, he was arrested on January 14, and he is held in custody at the Russian military base.

The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” And on January 21, the Investigative Committee of Armenia also filed a criminal charge against Permyakov, and with “premeditated murder of two or more persons.” The Russian soldier has accepted the charges.