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The October murders of Armenian prime minister Vazgen Sarkissian and parliamentary speaker Karen Demirchian, by heavily armed gunmen who raided the Parliament building, shocked the nation and divided local media. While the assassins' motives remained inscrutable at year's end, some journalists jumped to the swift and as yet unsubstantiated conclusion that the killings represented an…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260