Jump to content

The Gurgen Margaryan :trial:


Sebastia

Recommended Posts

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

Edited by Sebastia
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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?

Edited by ARR
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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!
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

 

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.

Edited by Vigil
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thursday 19, February 2004

 

Armenian Officer Axe-Murdered By Azeri Colleague In Hungary

 

By Harry Tamrazian in Prague

 

An Armenian army officer attending a NATO training course in Hungary

was hacked to death by an Azerbaijani colleague on Thursday in what

official Yerevan condemned as a `brutal' act resulting from a

long-running `anti-Armenian hysteria' in Azerbaijan.

 

The Hungarian police said the 26-year-old man, identified by the

Armenian military as Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian, was killed in his

asleep by a fellow officer from Azerbaijan who intruded into his room

early in the morning. They said the suspect was arrested shortly

afterwards.

 

The Hungarian Defense Ministry confirmed the information. `Early in the

morning the suspected murderer went into the other person's room and

killed him with an axe,' a ministry spokesman, Peter Matyuc, told

RFE/RL from Budapest. `He didn't show any resistance to police, they

got him easily after being alerted by roommates.'

 

Major Valter Fulop of the Budapest police was quoted by the Associated

Press as saying that the murder was committed with `unusual cruelty.'

`We say 'unusual cruelty' because besides a number of knife wounds on

his chest, the victim's head was practically severed from his body,'

Fulop said.

 

The Hungarian authorities said they have launched a criminal

investigation and will not comment on possible motives for the killing

until it is complete. `The suspected murderer was arrested in the

morning and the Hungarian police will conduct an investigation. I hope

we will find out the reason why it happened,' Matyuc said.

 

A NATO spokesman in Brussels also had no comment.

 

Armenia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said it was `deeply shocked' by

the officer's death and pledged to do `everything possible and

impossible to subject the murderer arrested by the Hungarian

authorities to deserved punishment.'

 

`This crime is the logical consequence of the anti-Armenian hysteria

that has been left unreined by the Azeri authorities over the years and

of the warmongering militarist propaganda of recent months, which

consistently infects all of Azeri society,' the Armenian Foreign

Ministry said in a separate statement. `It is evident that such state

policy has crossed the bounds and officials, representing Azerbaijan

abroad, can commit cold-blooded murder.'

 

`The Ministry expects that the international organizations will

appropriately assess this crime and react. At the same time, we demand

that the Hungarian authorities punish the perpetrator to the maximum

extent of the law.'

 

Diplomats from the Armenian embassy in Vienna have already arrived in

Budapest and are `working with the police' there, the statement added.

 

Markarian was one of two junior Armenian officers who were attending an

English-language course at Hungary's top military academy within the

framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The Armenian

Foreign Ministry said that his unidentified comrade also faced an

attempt on his life by the same person but that it was foiled. It did

not elaborate.

 

Matyuc said Markarian shared his room with a Hungarian colleague who

was the first person to find him dead and alert the police. `According

to the police report, there was a witness, the Hungarian roommate of

the Armenian officer,' he said, adding that the victim and the attacker

lived `next door' from one another.

 

The Budapest police said the arrested Azerbaijani is 27 years old and

referred to him as Ramil S. The Armenian military identified his last

name as Safarov.

 

The slaying, the first of its kind in the history of the

Nagorno-Artsax conflict, could further poison the atmosphere in the

long-running Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks that show no signs of an

imminent breakthrough. The Defense Ministry statement portrayed it as

another example of `the extreme and fanatical attitudes of the

Azerbaijani authorities.' It also reminded of Baku's apparent

unwillingness to allow Armenian soldiers to take part in a PfP military

exercise which is due to take place in Azerbaijan this summer.

 

There was no immediate reaction to the incident from Azerbaijan.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Oh. you're not gonna believe this!!!!!

 

here's some more from the incident.

 

go head and read the whole article ....

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3508003.stm

 

.... but pay attention to this part

 

 

The ministry appealed to Armenia to show restraint, and said the killing should not cause any further deterioration in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

 

 

P.S. thats what the azeri ministry of defence stated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Who gets bad publicity - unlike what the self-professed forum professer professes, it will not mean that Azerbaijan will be kicked out of partnerships or what have you. That's for the morons.

If the details hadn't been so full of gore, I would have feared that the publicizing of this story would be pretty bad, as the murderer could claim delivering his own justice for the "Khodjaly Genocide" or something like that - now that would have reflected badly, and not on Azeris.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Notice the subtile differences in the BBC report and the one above...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3508003.stm

 

They are justifying the killing by stating that the Armenian "insulted" the Ajeri. Also notice how they state that the killing was "alleged", which is kind of strange don't you think? One final note is that they state that the reason for the killing is b ecause of the NG war. Now why would they try to make it seem like there is 2 sides to the story?

Edited by Vigil
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...