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    AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTRY: "THE ARMENIAN SOLDIERS SAID THE SITUATION IN THE ARMENIAN ARMY IS INTOLERABLE"

    Today.Az
    http://www.today.az/news/politics/50850.html
    Marc h 2 2009
    Azerbaijan

    Armenian soldiers who knowingly crossed the Azerbaijani border said
    while being questioned that soldiers are tortured in the Armenian army,
    Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu told Trend News.

    Armenian soldiers crossed the border into Azerbaijan in Evciduzu in
    Agdam at noon on Feb. 28. They asked Khojali IDP Zumrud Aliyeva to
    give them food in Russian.

    Aliyeva heard them speaking Armenian and informed a nearby military
    unit.

    The Armenian soldiers were later detained - Grant Markosyan, Artur
    Varteryan and Alik Tevosyan.

    The Armenian soldiers said the situation in the Armenian army
    is intolerable. The soldiers are not provided with clothing. The
    army lacks heating, and soldiers catch diseases due to the cold,
    Sabiroglu said.

    "Soldiers said they are not provided with food. There have
    pneumonia and other serious diseases. The army also has a shortage
    of medicine. The infectious diseases left many dead. The officers
    even misappropriate the money sent by parents to buy medicine,"
    Sabiroglu said.

    Sabiroglu said the intolerable situation in the Armenian army forces
    soldiers to either desert the army or become volunteer hostages.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
    lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
    districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed
    a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia,
    France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
    From: Baghdasarian
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