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You guys, this is all over the news in Armenia. AN Armenian military officer attending a NATO Partnership for Peace program was hacked to death with an axe and a knife today by an Azerbaijani participant, police officials said. Budapest police Major Valter Fulop told reporters that the suspect, identified as Ramil S, was detained without resistance accused of committing murder with "unusual cruelty". "We say 'unusual cruelty' because beside a number of knife wounds on his chest, the victim's head was practically severed from his body," Fulop said. The Armenian Defence Ministry identified the suspect as Lieutenant Ramil Safari of Azerbaijan and the victim as Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian of Armenia. The interrogation of Safari and witnesses - including Markarian's Hungarian roommate - was under way, police Major Jozsef Szigeti said. The officers were attending an English language course within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, which is aimed at increasing cooperation between neutral and former Soviet bloc nations and NATO in peacekeeping and other areas. Police said a political motive for the murder was among the possibilities being considered and were also looking into how the suspect obtained the murder weapons. The Armenian Defence Ministry's statement said the murder was "a result of the bellicose anti-Armenian propaganda, unleashed by the authorities of Azerbaijan lately". Relations between the two former Soviet Republics remain tense after Armenian-backed forces drove Azerbaijan's army out of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Artsax in the early 1990s. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...55E1702,00.html

The Margaryan Trial: Case of murdered Armenian officer to begin in Hungary By Zhanna Alexanyan ArmeniaNow Reporter Court hearings are expected to begin November 23 in Budapest in the trial of Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani Army officer charged in the murder of Armenian Army officer Gurgen Margaryan February 19. The two were in Hungary to attend a NATO-sponsored English training program. Safarov attacked Margaryan, 26, in his sleep. A second Armenian officer, Hayk Mkuchyan escaped Safarov’s attack when alerted by his Lithuanian roommate. Attorney Nazeli Vardanyan has been appointed by the Ministry of Defense to represent Makuchyan and the family of Margaryan. Margaryan’s death was mourned last February Margaryan’s death was mourned last February The trial will be conducted in Hungarian, interpreted for the Armenian and Azeri sides. It was to have begun in June, however the Azeri side filed an appeal to have the trial moved to Azerbaijan and to have Safarov released from custody. The motions were denied. It was only a week ago that Vardanyan learned that the trial was about to begin. She says she has not had proper time to prepare, especially as all documents are in Hungarian, and must be translated. “We will have to translate the documents after we are there,” Vardanyan said. “In fact we are going to get acquainted with the documents of the whole criminal case, as we did not have the right to do that before the case entered the court.” Preparation time aside, Vardanyan says a strategy has been developed and that she will seek a life sentence against Safarov (Hungarian law does not permit capital punishment). The Armenian lawyer’s role will be to assist Hungary’s Public Prosecutor. “We need to provide materials, make motions, but the main prosecutor is Hungary’s public prosecutor. We will see in which direction the proceedings go and will prevent it from any kind of deviation from the matter”, says the lawyer without excluding that the Azerbaijani side may try to politicize the hearings. “We know this is a heavy crime and has been directed against the Armenian ethnos. If Gurgen and Hayk were not Armenians the crime would not have happened,” says Vardanyan. “He must be appropriately punished independent of the political situation or other circumstances.” Vardanyan says that judging from the Azerbaijani publications the Azeri side will argue for a mild sentence -- 10 to 15 years imprisonment. The Azerbaijani Day.az internet newspaper reports that Safarov’s lawyer doubts the officer will get a life sentence, due to extenuating circumstances. A number of Azebaijani human rights organizations are expected to appeal for international organizations to monitor the hearings. According to Azerbaijan’s “525” newspaper, human rights activist Chingiz Hamizade has said the court should investigate various reasons why Safarov committed the crime. “The place where Safarov comes from is occupied by the Armenians; he has lost close people there. This should be emphasized and taken into notice in the court,” the activist said. During the preliminary investigation Safarov testified that his relatives had suffered in the Karabagh war and it was revenge that made him murder Margaryan. “He has insisted he has lost relatives and a beloved girl, but he has not substantiated his words. He has not named anybody and that is not an extenuating circumstance,” Vardanyan argues. “If we follow that logic, any Armenian may commit a crime. His crime is a heavy one and he has to be punished.”

yes for a bunch of savages is may be a 'common crime'

Armenian Officer Killed ‘In Artsax War Revenge’ www.armenialiberty.org By Hrach Melkumian in Prague and Ruzanna Khachatrian An Azerbaijani army officer axe-murdered Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian in Budapest last month to avenge the deaths of fellow villagers during the war for Nagorno-Artsax, according to a leader of Hungary’s Armenian community. “He has admitted taking his revenge for compatriots killed in his village on February 26, 1993,” Adam Szarkiszjan told RFE/RL, citing information from Hungarian police which are investigating the February 19 brutal killing. The Azerbaijani authorities say the arrested attacker, Lieutenant Ramil Safarov, is a former resident of the Armenian-occupied Jebrail district south of Artsax and lost relatives in the war. Jebrail was captured by Artsax Armenian forces in the summer of 1993 and there were no major military operations in the area during the period mentioned by Szarkiszjian. February 26 is also the date of the 1992 capture of Artsax’s Azerbaijani-populated village of Khojaly which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of its civilian residents. Azerbaijan says the massacre was perpetrated by the advancing Armenians, a charge denied by the latter. In Szarkiszjan’s words, Safarov told the investigators that he had initially planned the killing for February 26 but decided to carry it out a week earlier after Markarian “smiled at him in a kind of suspicious fashion.” The Armenian officer, buried in Yerevan on Saturday, was hacked to death with an axe and a knife while he slept early in the morning. Budapest police said his head was “practically severed” from his body. Szarkiszjan further cited Safarov as testifying that he also sought to kill a second Armenian officer who attended an English-language course at Hungary’s main military academy as part of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program. The officer, Captain Hayk Makuchian, confirmed this version of events in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday. Makuchian said his life was saved by his Lithuanian roommate who kept him from opening the door after Safarov started knocking on it. “Having found my door locked, the Azerbaijani knocked at it for several times and started yelling, ‘Hey Armenian, open up, we are going to slaughter all of you’,” Makuchian told the newspaper “Iravunk” after his return to Yerevan. He said Markarian never locked his door and always ignored his theft warnings saying “Don’t worry, I’m not afraid of anyone.” “Gurgen was very strong physically, they could only kill him in his sleep,” the captain added. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has claimed that Safarov had been goaded into committing the gruesome crime by “insulting statements” repeatedly made by his victim. Makuchian strongly denied this, saying that he and his murdered comrade had virtually no contact with the two Azerbaijani officers. “The Azerbaijanis were real introverts, they didn’t like socializing.” Szarkiszjan, the Armenian community leader, said that Makuchian and five other participants of the NATO course have already been questioned by the police and that the case will be forwarded to a Hungarian court later this month. He said he is “100 percent certain” that Safarov will not be repatriated to Azerbaijan after his likely imprisonment. “There is no way he could be taken back. He must be tried under our law and serve his sentence here.” In Yerevan, Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian said the Armenian authorities will continue to try to ensure a “fair investigation” into the case and will hire a lawyer who will represent them at Safarov’s upcoming trial. They hope court sessions will be open to the public, he added. The Armenian leadership has reacted to the Budapest killing with shock and outrage, describing it as a result of “anti-Armenian hysteria” fanned by Azerbaijan. Official Baku dismissed the outcry with President Ilham Aliev suggesting that it was “a common or garden crime.”

Them Turkic peoples get Islamier by the minute.

http://www.thegev.com/images/potd/sniperkat.jpg Mos, the cat is on its way!!!!!!!

BTW, anyone tried to post those links on Turkey dot com or /\zerigenocide dot org?

Oil flowing from Baku has already sealed the fate of Armenia. The west has only two phrases that pay, which is "God Bless America" and "Long live the Queen", the rest really are not that important as long as these two remain.

This will permanently settle the Karabagh question. What international group will have credibilty after this if they suggest granting Azerbaijan sovereignity over Karabagh?

This should be taken to the highest levels at NATO. The Azeris should be censored by the NATO high command. Robertson should condemn this in the most emphatic terms. This is the second strike for them after they kept the Armenians out of the exercizes in Baku.

Why doesn't the U.S. news report this??? Well... I know why. What an evil world we really are living in.

And it's not only the Azeris, but the Turks and the Muslim culture in general.

It is indeed horrible. The Azeris showed their true nature - they're nothing but barbarians. Even if he really wanted to kill, he could've just shot with a gun, but he actually hacked the Armenian officer with an axe. What an animal!

Sebastya can ve send you cat to BUdapesh ??? http://www.thegev.com/images/potd/sniperkat.jpg

I hope the Hungarian police does the same to that animal its times like these when I agree with gamavor - a good turk is a dead turk

This is messed up. Is the Azveri in Azveri or NATO custody? Most likely he will be released with a slap on the cheek.

This story is just horrific. These people and I am reffering to Azeri's are nothing but animals. Here is the link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...menian_killed_2

Chilling news.I had chills going through my spine reading this.Every time I read similiar incidents it just takes me back to 1915.

Very tragic indeed. It shows the cowardice and barbarism of our pathetic neighbors. We can never trust them.

The Evil has shown its face again! This once again proves that Artsax must be independent of Azerbaijan and Azeries. The blood thirsty military machine of Azerbaijan has succeeded in creating fanatics and haters. But they can only strike at sleeping. They are the bravest when their opponents are asleep, elderly, women, or children. We have seen all that in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad and in Artsax. But, in the battlefield they are coward like sheep which they are. Let this be an example to OBSE, Minks Group, Nato, and others that try to settle the Artsax conflict. How can Artsax be part of a country that hates them, that tried to exterminate its entire population, and keeps threatening?