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Baroness Cox: Azerbaijan broke faith
September 28, 2013 | 15:10
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan broke faith and behaved in an appalling way by
making a hero of Ramil Safarov, Baroness Caroline Cox said.
`We must never forget that the Armenian army officer was murdered in
his sleep,' she said during the opening ceremony of a monument to
slain officer Gurgen Margaryan.
Baroness Cox said she was deeply shocked when Azerbaijan celebrated
the murderer as a hero.
`I am very worried by the massage that it gives to a younger
generation in Azerbaijan, if they are taught to treat a murderer as a
hero.'
Caroline Cox recalled that Ramil Safarov got a life sentence in
Hungary.
`I do not know why he was sent back to Azerbaijan, but I think
Azerbaijan promised he would continue his sentence in prison.'
As reported earlier, Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the
Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence - and with no expression of
either regret or remorse - for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004. Safarov had planned on
killing the other Armenian military serviceman, who likewise was
attending the aforesaid program, but he was unable to carry out this
plan.
Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder,
by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's government and much of
Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted
him a pardon, he was declared a national hero, promoted to a higher
military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012
that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also,
Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to
petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect to
the Safarov case.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning was condemned by virtually all international
organizations.
The Armenian party had applied to ECtHR in February, in connection
with the Ramil Safarov case. The complaint is with respect to Articles
2 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Armenian and
foreign specialists are included in the working group that is
preparing the complaint.
http://news.am/eng/news/173474.html
September 28, 2013 | 15:10
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan broke faith and behaved in an appalling way by
making a hero of Ramil Safarov, Baroness Caroline Cox said.
`We must never forget that the Armenian army officer was murdered in
his sleep,' she said during the opening ceremony of a monument to
slain officer Gurgen Margaryan.
Baroness Cox said she was deeply shocked when Azerbaijan celebrated
the murderer as a hero.
`I am very worried by the massage that it gives to a younger
generation in Azerbaijan, if they are taught to treat a murderer as a
hero.'
Caroline Cox recalled that Ramil Safarov got a life sentence in
Hungary.
`I do not know why he was sent back to Azerbaijan, but I think
Azerbaijan promised he would continue his sentence in prison.'
As reported earlier, Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the
Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence - and with no expression of
either regret or remorse - for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004. Safarov had planned on
killing the other Armenian military serviceman, who likewise was
attending the aforesaid program, but he was unable to carry out this
plan.
Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder,
by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's government and much of
Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted
him a pardon, he was declared a national hero, promoted to a higher
military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012
that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also,
Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to
petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect to
the Safarov case.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning was condemned by virtually all international
organizations.
The Armenian party had applied to ECtHR in February, in connection
with the Ramil Safarov case. The complaint is with respect to Articles
2 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Armenian and
foreign specialists are included in the working group that is
preparing the complaint.
http://news.am/eng/news/173474.html