Kocharyan: Armenian authorities cannot "digest" the October 27, 1999  terrorist attack, as its organizers were detained and convicted under  my watch

ArmInfo.  Armenia's second president and leader of the "Armenia" alliance, Robert Kocharyan, stated that he suffered the greatest loss during the October 27, 1999 terrorist attack on the Armenian parliament, as he lost a close friend—Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan. 

In a podcast with his son, Levon Kocharyan, a member of the  opposition Armenia bloc, posted on Facebook,t he politician addressed  the events of October 27 and the allegations directed at him. He  expressed his conviction that the current Armenian authorities cannot  "digest" or accept how the October 27, 1999 terrorist attack was  resolved, precisely because its organizers were arrested and  convicted during his presidency. 

"Tell me what mistakes I should take responsibility for, and I am  ready to do so. How could anyone never make mistakes? Today, people  mostly associate the events of October 27 with me. In particular, a  'small group' in Armenia [referring to the current authorities-ed.]  is attempting to do this. These people cannot "digest"  October 27  because the terrorists who organized the attack were arrested,  convicted, and remain in prison today thanks to me," the leader of  the "Armenia" alliance stated.

At the same time, Kocharyan believes that he suffered the greatest  loss that day. "I lost my closest friend (Armenian Prime Minister  Vazgen Sargsyan - ed.). This is precisely the most absurd,  unpleasant, and incomprehensible thing about all of this. But they  also tried to somehow connect this loss to me. This is an injustice  of cosmic proportions. For me, it is simply incomprehensible. This is  the height of immorality," Kocharyan concluded.