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    Azeri villagers complain authorities ignoring their problems

    ANS TV, Baku
    2 Sep 04

    Presenter Members of an ANS crew have been attacked in Tartar western
    Azerbaijan . A bureaucrat tried to smash our video camera in front
    of district residents who cannot make local bureaucrats take heed of
    their numerous problems.

    Correspondent over video of people in a conference hall The major
    problems of Tartar residents are related to land and electricity. We
    came to this conclusion while observing the head of the executive
    authorities receiving residents. The problems raised in the presence
    of the district's first man were great.

    Qaragaci villagers said that land was distributed in the village
    in 1997. However, 16 families still cannot plough their plots of land.

    Rasul Haciyev from Qacagan village We come here almost every day. We
    have appealed to the executive authorities and the court.

    Correspondent Duman Yusifov from the village of Qaradagli, who has
    not planted anything on his plot of land for two years, is unhappy
    about the local municipality.

    Yusifov My problem remains unresolved, I was here three weeks ago,
    despite instructions, nobody took heed of them.

    Correspondent The problem of Sixarx villagers is related to the lack
    of electricity.

    Isa Orucov from the village of Sixarx The settlement of Sixarx has
    no electricity supplies. We are here to have our power lines cut off
    forever. We had electricity two months ago.

    Correspondent The problems of the refugees from Armenia are being
    ignored by the local bureaucrats and the State Committee for
    Refugees. Houses built for them by the committee in 1994 proved to
    be of low quality and became unusable in three years.

    Kamil Quliyev, a refugee from Armenia The executive authorities should
    send a list to the committee, and in turn, they should draw up a formal
    deed in order to repair, demolish or rebuild them. But none of these
    has been done. The executive authorities are not giving us a letter
    on the state of the houses , nor are they taking any steps themselves.

    Passage omitted: other complaints

    Correspondent Incidentally, our crew members were also attacked
    by arbitrary bureaucrats in Tartar. Once the reception was over,
    we filmed the scene outside the district executive authorities. At
    this moment, the newly-appointed chief of the Tartar network section
    of the Bayva Qarb power company, Seymur Haciyev, first attacked our
    video camera and then our cameraman.

    Haciyev ordering the cameraman to take the camera away Stop filming.

    Cameraman I am not filming you.

    Haciyev attacking and beating the video camera You cannot film me,
    I shall smash it.

    Correspondent We failed to learn the reasons for Seymur
    Haciyev's behaviour both from the executive authorities and from
    himself. Apparently, the head of the department was enraged by the
    fact that the majority of the complaints at the reception were
    related to the electricity problem. Given this behaviour by the
    head of the department with regard to the members of the country's
    leading TV company, it is not hard to imagine how he treats district
    residents. The first deputy head of the executive authorities, Kamal
    Alikisiyev, said that all in all, 731 complaints have been received
    by the executive authorities this year. This is 15 per cent lower
    than in 2003. Alikisiyev attributed this to the resolution of problems.

    Sahin Rzayev and Zaur Nayibov for ANS from Tartar.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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