Today marks the birthday of Armenia’s first defense minister and a former prime minister, Vazgen Sargsyan, who was tragically shot to death in October 1999 during a terrorist attack at the National Assembly.
The national hero would turn 53 today if alive.
Vazgen Sargsyan was born in Ararat region in 1959. In 1979, he graduated from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture. From 1983 to 1986, he was the Communist Youth League leader at the cement factory in Ararat. An amateur writer, Sargsyan then moved into literary life. From 1986 to 1989 he headed the publicity department of the Garun (Spring) literary monthly in Yerevan. But the Armenian national ferment of the late 1980s saw him abandon this role as he flung himself headlong into political life.
Armenian News
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