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ARMENIAN OFFICER KILLED AS TENSION CONTINUES
Hurriyet Daily News
Sept 27 2012
Turkey
Azerbaijani forces killed an Armenian soldier on Sept. 25 on the
border between the two states, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan said.
"Serviceman Vaghinak Baghdasarian was killed by enemy fire," a brief
defense ministry statement said without giving further details. The
soldier was the 15th reported killed this year amid clashes between
Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along their border and on the frontline
in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Tension between Yerevan and Baku is already high over Baku's pardoning
of an extradited Azerbaijani soldier who had hacked an Armenian
to death.
Ramil Safarov, who had been incarcerated since 2004 in Hungary, where
he murdered an Armenian counterpart at a NATO event, was treated as
a hero upon his return and made a major. Yerevan reacted furiously to
the pardon and strongly condemned Baku, with Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan saying "making a hero out of a criminal is unacceptable"
and accusing Azerbaijan of endangering the region's fragile peace.
Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan
in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead, and no final peace
deal has been signed since the cease-fire.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force
if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed massive
retaliation against any military action.
From: A. Papazian
Hurriyet Daily News
Sept 27 2012
Turkey
Azerbaijani forces killed an Armenian soldier on Sept. 25 on the
border between the two states, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan said.
"Serviceman Vaghinak Baghdasarian was killed by enemy fire," a brief
defense ministry statement said without giving further details. The
soldier was the 15th reported killed this year amid clashes between
Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along their border and on the frontline
in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Tension between Yerevan and Baku is already high over Baku's pardoning
of an extradited Azerbaijani soldier who had hacked an Armenian
to death.
Ramil Safarov, who had been incarcerated since 2004 in Hungary, where
he murdered an Armenian counterpart at a NATO event, was treated as
a hero upon his return and made a major. Yerevan reacted furiously to
the pardon and strongly condemned Baku, with Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan saying "making a hero out of a criminal is unacceptable"
and accusing Azerbaijan of endangering the region's fragile peace.
Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan
in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead, and no final peace
deal has been signed since the cease-fire.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force
if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed massive
retaliation against any military action.
From: A. Papazian