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ARMED CLASHES TOOK PLACE AT ISMAILI REGION OF AZERBAIJAN

http://times.am/?l=en&p=17451

Armed clashes between the police and rebels are taking place in
Azerbaijani Ismaili region. As the Azerbaijani users of the social
networks and forums informed thousands of people burnt the cars and
houses of the officials of the region. The police was not able to
supervise the situation. Accoridng to the information from Azerbaijan
new forces were expected to be brought from other towns of Azerbaijan
during the night.

Note that the residents got angry because of the behavior of the
son of the Minister of labor and social issues Fizuli Alekperov who
crashed with his ~SHummer~T car in the region. Then he offended the
residents, after which the citizens beat him terribly and continued
expressing their anger towards the uncle of the young man, who is
the governor of the region.

The residents noted that the noted accident became the last point
and they just lost the patience.

24.01.13, 10:09

[Yervant1]

AZERBAIJANI INTERNAL FORCES FIRE ON THE PROTESTORS

18:28, 24 January, 2013

YEREVAN, JANUARY 24, ARMENPRESS: Azeri internal forces used tear
gas, water cannon and opened fire on the demonstration to disperse
hundreds of protesters demanding a local leader's resignation on
Thursday after cars and a hotel were torched in a night of rioting.

As reports Armenpress referring to haqqin.az mass protests are rare
in Azerbaijan and the crowds' complaints about wages, unemployment
and oppressive government may send a worrying signal to autocratic
President Ilham Aliyev in an election year.

As reports Armenpress at least one building on fire and the burning
carcasses of vehicles set ablaze by rioters on Wednesday night in
the town of Ismaili, 200 km (125 miles) northwest of the capital
Baku.Police said protesters and police were injured and reinforcements
brought in from outside the town to help restore order. Azerbaijan's
Turan news agency quoted witnesses as saying the protests ended only
after tear gas and water cannon were used.

The rioting began after a hotel owner drove his car into an electricity
pole and got into a fight with a driver whose vehicle was parked
nearby, witnesses said.

About 3,000 people went to the driver's hotel, set fire to it and
torched cars in the courtyard, before moving on to the home of regional
governor Nizami Alekperov's son, where a car and two motorcycles were
set ablaze.

"We are annoyed with unemployment, poverty and an atmosphere of fear,"
one resident, who declined to be identified, told Turan.