YEREVAN. - The sit-in participants in Yerevan’s Baghramyan Avenue observed a minute of silence in memory of Seryozha Avetosyan, the youngest member of Armenia’s Gyumri city Avetisyan family, brutally slaughtered in January of this year.

Seryozha Avetisyan would turn 1 today.

Decision was taken several days ago to transfer the case of Avetisyan family murder to the Armenian law enforcement authorities and try Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov in Armenia.

Six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby boy was wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12, 2015. The baby died after seven days of struggle in hospital. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in the city, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended and arrested by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border.

The reasons for the murder have been unknown to the relatives up to now. They are also suspicious about the accused persons, wondering whether he was acting alone and how he managed to kill 7 members of the family.