ALMA Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Azeri Soldier ‘Escapes To Armenia’ An Azerbaijani soldier crossed into northeastern Armenia and surrendered to Armenian troops stationed there at the weekend, claiming to have been ill-treated by his commanders, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan said on Wednesday. According to the ministry spokesman, Colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian, Yaghub Mukhtarov, 19, told Armenian military officials that he decided to desert from his army unit in western Azerbaijan after being refused medical assistance and beaten up by its officers. Shahsuvarian said his body bore “numerous traces of severe beating.” The incident was reported just over a month after Armenia deported to an unnamed European country an Azerbaijani army conscript who had reportedly been taken prisoner in similar circumstances in December 2006. According to the Armenian military, Samir Mamedov claimed to have been systematically mistreated and humiliated by his comrades and asked not to be repatriated. Mamedov’s escape came the day after the repatriation of another Azerbaijani soldier who spent two weeks in Armenian captivity. The soldier, Vusal Garajayev, was convicted of high treason and sentenced him to 11 years in prison by a military court in Baku in May 2007. For its part, Azerbaijan released in late January an Armenian serviceman taken prisoner by Azerbaijani forces in August 2007 after deserting from his army unit deployed in Nagorno-Artsax. Private Hambartsum Asatrian claimed that he mistakenly strayed into Azerbaijani-controlled territory north of Artsax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-47 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 AZERI SERVICEMAN WENT OVER TO ARMENIAN PARTY YEREVAN, 14.04.08. DE FACTO. On April 11 in the vicinity of the village of Yusifganly, situated in Agdam’s direction, an Azeri serviceman was detained by the servicemen of the Nagorno-Artsax Republic Defense Army while going over to the Artsax army. According to the information DE FACTO received at the NKR State Commission on POWs and the Missing, the prisoner did not have any identification documents. He introduced himself as Vusal Shirsultan Oghly Heybatov, born in 1989 in the village of Hilmany, Azerbaijan’s Shemakhin region, a serviceman of the 190th brigade of Azerbaijani Army. The NKR appropriate organs elucidate motives and reasons for Azerbaijani serviceman’s passing to the Artsax party. The NKR State Commission on POWs and the Missing informed the OSCE and the International Committee of the Red Cross offices accredited in the Nagorno-Artsax of the occurrence. Source: http://www.defacto.am/index.php?OP=71333377 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aratta-Kingdom Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 long live the rotten country azerbaderjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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