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    RAZM.INFO: AZERBAIJANI PRO-GOVERNMENT MEDIA FIRST WROTE THEN REMOVED NEWS ABOUT UNCONFIRMED LOSS IN ARMY

    17:31 02/04/2015 >> REGION

    Azerbaijani state information agency AzerTAc reported an unconfirmed
    loss in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The news was rewritten
    by several pro-governmental media, however, the next day in the
    evening the publications regarding this topic were removed from the
    news outlets loyal to the authorities, Armenian military-analytical
    outlet Razm.info writes in an article about methods of the Ministry
    of Defense of Azerbaijan to hide the losses in the army.

    According to the article, on March 28, Azerbaijani state information
    agency AzerTAc reported that officer and senior lieutenant of the
    Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Ahmadov Igbal Serraf oglu, born in 1980,
    had died in the direction of Aghdam on the line of contact earlier
    in the day. It was also noted in the article that he was buried under
    volleys in the presence of the commanders of the military unit where
    he served. Akhmadov was buried in his native village of Ashagi Nyuvedi,
    district Lankaran.

    The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not make
    an official statement concerning the death of the senior lieutenant
    Igbal Ahmadov, however, a number of Azerbaijani media, including
    pro-governmental information agency APA reported the death of the
    officer citing the publication of AzerTAc. The article about Igbal
    Ahmadov's funeral was posted on APA's site on March 29 in the morning,
    Razm.info writes.

    As the article has it, the publication about a senior lieutenant's
    death on the website of a pro-governmental or loyal to the authorities
    information agency at first seemed to be one of the exceptional cases,
    when the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan decided to report the loss
    in order to create an illusion for the population of the country
    that the losses are not hidden. However, the events that followed
    showed something quite different: on 29 March in the evening the
    articles covering the topic were removed from the websites of the
    above-mentioned information agencies and a number of other news
    services. Nonetheless, both AzerTAc's and APA's articles, that were
    first published and then removed, were saved in the Google search
    engine database cache.

    The outlet reminds that this is not the first case. On March 24,
    Azerbaijani news outlet Moderator.az, citing its own sources, reported
    that a soldier from one of the military units in Jalilabad district,
    Yusifov Semerhan Etibar oglu, had been killed by his fellow soldier.

    The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not
    comment on the information, and the publication was removed from the
    website on the following day.

    A similar case was detected by the specialists on March, 26 when it was
    known from the Azerbaijani non-official open sources that a contract
    serviceman, Kazimov Etibar Khudavi oglu, was killed on the line of
    contact of the troops. The information was posted on the website of
    the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat on March 26; however, it was
    removed a little later, again being saved only in the Google search
    engine database. On the next day, on March 27, the press office of
    the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan was obliged to admit the fact
    of the military loss only after the information was widely spread in
    the social media.

    As the article has it, yet another time concrete facts reaffirm that
    the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan takes up various measures in
    attempt to hide the real number of the losses in the army from its
    own population trying to make an impression of 'victorious actions.'

    "Nonetheless, 'the victorious picture' is sometimes distorted because
    of this kind of slips, which forces the Azerbaijani authorities to
    make use of such brutal methods as removing the materials - that have
    already spread in the social networks - from information websites,"
    the outlet concludes.

    Note also that since early 2015 the Azerbaijani government agencies
    acknowledged the death of 13 servicemen: according to official
    information, 9 of them were combat deaths on the frontline.

    http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/04/02/azerbaijan-army/



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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