Armenian Parliament Shooting

Date: October 27, 1999 • Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan carried out a mass shooting at the Armenian parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly speaker Karen Demirchyan, and six others.

Nairi Hrachiki Hunanyan is an Armenian journalist who led the armed attack on the Armenian parliament on 27 October 1999 and killed Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other politicians.