ARMED CLASHES TOOK PLACE AT ISMAILI REGION OF AZERBAIJAN

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ARMED CLASHES TOOK PLACE AT ISMAILI REGION OF AZERBAIJAN

 

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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

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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.