Harry Sassounian

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Who is Harry Sassounian?

Harry M. Sassounian, also known as Hampig Sassounian, is serving a life sentence for the 1982 assassination of Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan. He murdered Kemal Arikan at a street intersection in Los Angeles. While Sassounian was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in 1984, some Armenian-American groups named him a hero and pushed for his parole eligibility in 2002.

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on July 23, 2013

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