Gurgen Margaryan Murder

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Azerbaijani Army Officer to be Sentenced on April 13

08/03/2006 00:12

Yesterday, the trial on Azerbaijani Army officer Ramil Safarov, who is accused of murdering Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, was continued in the Hungarian capital Budapest.





Lawyer Adil Ismayilov, representative of Safarov’s family informed APA from Budapest that the result of the fourth forensic medical examination on Ramil Safarov was announced in the trial. Experts concluded that Safarov was conscious when he committed murder.

The opposite side solicited for repeated examination. However, the court rejected the solicitation, and declared that the result of the examination was adopted. So, the process was over. Ramil Safarov will be sentenced in the trial on April 13.

Safarov underwent three forensic medical examinations by experts. As the first examination was conducted in Russian, which Safarov does not know, the result was dismissed. The opinions of experts on the rest two medical examinations were that Safarov was unconscious when he committed murder
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AZERI OFFICER'S TRIAL IN HUNGARY ADJOURNED UNTIL MAY

Azartac news agency, Baku
22 Feb 06

21 February: The district court in Pest [Budapest] has heard a second
case against Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov [who is on trial for
killing Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan during a NATO course],
a source in the Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary has told an Azartac
correspondent.

Safarov and prison officers had a squabble in the remand facility on
19 July 2004. He was charged with using force against a Hungarian
law-enforcer and inflicting light bodily harms on him. The hearing
was presided over by judge (?Tot Dendver).

(?Clara Fischer) defended Safarov in the second case. At the beginning
of the court session, the judge presented the charges against Safarov ,
who answered questions. Then, the public prosecution and the defence
examined him.

Subsequently, it was decided to have the next court session on 3 May
this year to have other persons concerned and a witness testify.

Diplomats from the Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary and Azerbaijani
students studying in that country participated in the hearing.

Diplomats from the Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary and Azerbaijani
students studying in that country participated in the hearing.

May anyone who supports this animal rot in hell... God will see to it that justice is served not only for the criminal but those who don't condemn the crime...

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Progressive Party of Armenia Declared Safarov Murderer of Year

Source: PanARMENIAN.Net
URL: http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=16531
Date: 21.02.2006 18:06 GMT+04:00


Progressive Party of Armenia Declared Safarov Murderer of Year
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The youth wing of the Progressive Party of Armenia has declared Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov murderer of year. This was the response of members of the Progressive Party of Armenia youth organization to the decision of the National Democratic Party of Azerbaijan to recognize Safarov man of year. Participants of the action organized in Yerevan on the occasion of the second anniversary of murder of Gurgen Margaryan demanded life sentence for the cowardly murderer, who hacked the sleeping man. It was declared during the event that «chair of the Progressive Party of Armenia Tigran Urikhanyan was expected to make a sensational statement.»

Lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Armenia Gurgen Margaryan sent to Budapest to take English courses within NATO Partnership for Peace Program was brutally hacked by an Azeri officer participating in the same course February 19, 2004. Safarov is indicted in compliance with article 116.2 of the Criminal Code of Hungary (murder committed with special cruelty and attempt at lives over one person), which provides for imprisonment from 10-15 years to life sentence.

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Indiffence Of Europe To Case Of Ramil Safarov May Cause Mistrust To Eu In Armenia

INDIFFENCE OF EUROPE TO CASE OF RAMIL SAFAROV MAY CAUSE MISTRUST TO EU IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 18.ARMINFO. D. Mouradian, Secretary of RA National
Academy of Science, and film director Albert Mkrtchian express hope
that the decision of the Azeri National Democrates to declare murderer
Ramil Safarov "man of year"doesn't reflect the opinion of all the
Azer society.

"The Armenian officer Gourgen Margarian was killed with an ax
neither in Soumgait nor Baku, but in the very center of Europe and
the indifference of Europe to this case may cause the mistrust of
the Armenian people to them,"David Mouradian said.

He stated that NATO should have secured the safety of Margarian in
Budapest, but the North Atlantic Alliance displayed total indifference
to the case."How can we trust the initiatives of the West in the
Nagorno Karabakh issue and trust the security of NKR Armenians to
the Western structures, when they remain indifferent to the murder
of a sleeping officer?" Mouradian put a rhethoric question.

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Ramil Safarov Not Pride but Shame of Azeri Nation

11.02.2006 00:20 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The defense of Ramil Safarov charged of murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan build their line insisting that the intellectual background of the accused is very poor, representative of the RA MOD in the Budapest court Hayk Demoyan told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, the third and forth medical-forensic examination proved it. “It’s interesting that during the examination Safarov said Gurgen was handsome and charming. It’s unclear what he meat by saying this. Nevertheless Safarov was found sane with low intellectual facilities,” Demoyan noted. In his words, in Turkish military camps Ramil Safarov was trained to kill by all means, with axe as well.

As for the zombied Azeri soldiers in Turkish military camps Hayk Demoyan reminded the words of Azeri political scientist Arif Yunusov who said “other soldiers and officers will fight with Armenian army.” Most likely Yunusov was speaking of the military for whom Ramil Safarov is exemplary. At the same time the RA MOD representative emphasized that the Azeri politicians who declare Ramil Safarov the hero of the nation do not understand that he dishonored his country in the entire world.

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Azerbaijan Destroys Medieval Armenian Christian Cemetery, Group Says

Thursday, 26 January 2006

BosNewsLife, Hungary
Jan 27 2006

Armenian Christians still recall the legacy of the 1915 genocide.

BAKU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The government of Azerbaijan has
destroyed an "irreplaceable" medieval Armenian Christian cemetery in
the Djulfa region of the country's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic,
amid growing tensions in the area, an influential religious rights
group said Thursday, January 26.

Washington-based International Christian Concern (ICC), claimed
"the act of cultural cleansing" resembled the spirit of the Armenian
Genocide, which it called "an attempt by Muslim countries in the region
to erase all memory of a thriving Christian culture that existed in
the Caucasus area since the fourth century."

Azeri officials denied its forces destroyed the cemetery saying
that these statements "simply target misleading the international
community," local media reported.

The head of the President's Office International Relations Department,
Novruz Mammadov, accused Armenians of trying to misinform the US
Senate and House of Representatives. "The truth is that 20 percent of
Azerbaijan's territory has been leveled," he said in published remarks.

Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict
with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave which
is largely Armenian populated. Azerbaijan lost 16 percent of its
territory, and must support some 571,000 internally displaced persons
as a result of the conflict, according to the US Central Intelligence
Agency.

TALIBAN'S DESTRUCTION

However ICC suggested that it has evidence that the government's
actions are "on the same level as the Taliban's destruction of the
Bamiyan Buddha statues (in Afghanistan) in 2001 and the desecration
of Jewish cemeteries throughout Europe."

"The shocking videotape of the systematic demolition of this treasure
of world Christian heritage documents for all to see a deliberate
act of hatred against a long-persecuted Christian nation and - more
broadly - an affront to all Christians around the world."

It said that in mid-December of 2005, roughly 200 Azerbaijani
soldiers "were caught on videotape using sledgehammers to demolish
a sacred site of the Armenian Apostolic Church." It claimed that the
"shocking videotape of the systematic demolition of this treasure of
world Christian heritage documents for all to see a deliberate act of
hatred against a long-persecuted Christian nation and - more broadly -
an affront to all Christians around the world."

The cemetery dates back to the 7th Century and was once home to as
many as 10,000 intricately carved stone-crosses known as khatchkars,
ICC said.

"PROFOUNDLY TROUBLED"

"We are profoundly troubled by the Azerbaijani government's desecration
of the Armenian Christian cemetery in Djulfa -particularly the
destruction of irreplaceable carved stone crosses, many over a
thousand years old," added ICC president Jeff King in a statement
obtained by BosNewsLife.

The ICC said the alleged attack followed previous demolitions in 1998
and 2002 and "effectively destroyed this site - erasing forever a
true treasure of world heritage."

ICC also criticized the US State Department for allegedly remaining
silent over the issue. The State Department recently acknowledged
however that "animosity toward ethnic Armenians" has "forced most
Armenians to emigrate, and all Armenian churches, many of which
were damaged in riots that took place more than a decade ago, (have)
remained closed."

US officials estimate that 20,000 ethnic Armenians have been unable
to attend services at their traditional places of worship because of
the closures.

CEMETERY DESTRUCTION

ICC suggested that the destruction of the cemetery and apparent
government pressure on Armenian Christians resembled the atmosphere
that preceded the 1915 genocide when over 1.5 million Armenian,
Hellenic, and Assyrian Christians were allegedly killed as Azerbaijan
and Turkey "sought to eradicate the historical memory of the thriving
Christian presence in the Caucasus and Anatolia."

The Christian Armenian legacy in this part of the world dates back
to the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew and, later, Armenia's
conversion to Christianity as a state religion in the year 301,
experts say. Turkey, which wants to join the European Union, has
come under international pressure to acknowledge the mass killing of
Armenians from 1915 as a "tragedy."

France passed a law officially recognizing the Armenian genocide in
2001, cooling relations with Turkey and jeopardizing a major arms
deal. At least another 14 nations, including Switzerland, Russia
and Argentina, also classified the killings as genocide. (ICC can be
reached via website: http://www.persecution.org. With BosNewsLife's
Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife Research and reports from Azerbaijan and
the United States).

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Real Azerbaijan Newspaper, Which Called Safarov Criminal, Picketed in Baku

Newspaper, Which Called Safarov Criminal, Picketed in Baku
27.01.2006 00:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Some 70 veterans of the fights near Dashalty and activists of the movement of Karabakh War Veterans picketed the editor's office of the Real Azerbaijan newspaper, which had called Ramil Safarov, who is indicted for killing Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, «a criminal.» Aggressively disposed participants of the action demanded that the newspaper staff come out and comment on the viewpoint presented in the article. Not ruing out the opportunity for the picketers can attack the editor's office, the newspaper editor-in-chief Eynulla Fatullayev called the police, reported Day.az.

February 19, 2004 Armenian Armed Forces lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, who was sent to Budapest to take English courses within Partnership for Peace Program, was brutally hacked by the Azeri officer, also a participant of the same course. Safarov was indicted on the article 116.2 of the Hungarian Criminal Code (murder with special brutality and attempt at life of over one person), which provides for imprisonment from 10-15 years to life imprisonment.

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Almost qualified to go under "Ridiculous News"

RAMIL SAFAROV'S FATHER: "ANTI-RAMIL WRITINGS ARE AGAINST THE WHOLE AZERBAIJAN"
2006-01-20 19:19

Azerbaijan News Service
Jan 20 2006

Everyone ought to be responsible before his conscience for writings
about Ramil Safarov, accused in assassination of Armenian serviceman.

Thus this is not the issue of Ramil Safarov only, but that of the
whole Azerbaijan. Sahib Safarov, Ramil Safarov's father is seriously
worried about recent articles published in some papers. "Recently a
very insulting campaign has launched about my son. They say Ramil
Safarov's deeds undermine Azerbaijan's reputation. But I think
their writings undermine the image of Azerbaijan. Was it important
to publish such writings ahead of Ramil's court session? " Father
safarov highly appreciates the intended visit of television chiefs,
PMs, and NGO representatives to Hungary. But he cannot understand
what stands behind the recent anti-Ramil articles in some Mass Media
representatives. "I believe that those articles have been written by
order. But I cannot understand who is targeted in them" He says those
writings against Ramil Safarov are against Azerbaijan, as well. Thus,
he addressed zto mass media workers as a father: "The Court sessions
are still on. Let those who fell dislikes towards Ramil Safarov
retain their ambitions after the court. May be the Court will release
Ramil. But those writings can serve as a basis for the Judge that
Azerbaijan accuses itself. If they consider themselves Azerbaijanis
let them give up their anti-Ramil campaign." Ramil Safarov's mother,
Nubar Safarova also shares her husband's ideas. She reminded that in
one of the court sessions in Budapest Court the Armenian lawyer had
outlined with confidence that they would win the case. The lawyer
added that the defeat of Azerbaijan in the court means Azerbaijan's
defeat. In order not to suffer another defeat, Azerbaijan ought to
back Ramil Safarov with all its might.

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Trial Of Ramil Safarov To Be Continued On 21 February

TRIAL OF RAMIL SAFAROV TO BE CONTINUED ON 21 FEBRUARY

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Jan 17 2006

BUDAPEST. Court process was held in Pesht region court on the
claim raised by prison guards against officer of Azerbaijan Army
Ramil Safarov who is accused of murdering Armenian officer Gurgen
Markaryan today.

APA was informed by Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary. The associates of
the embassy also attended the trial presided by Judge Ms. Tot Dender.

The judge announced the names of the lawyer and four public prosecutors
in the process lasted for an hour and the indictment in Turkish was
presented to Ramil Safarov. The Embassy informed that, it was decided
to continue the trial on 21 February.

It should be noted that, the prison guards wanted Ramil Safarov to
give telephone card on June 19, 2004. Ramil Safarov who didn't know
Hungarian couldn't understand the guards and it resulted in conflict
among them. And 8 policemen used violence on him in the end. Though
the lawyers of Ramil Safarov appealed to the court after this event,
the court put an end to the case basing that there was not any proof.

The opposite side raised a claim stating that the Azerbaijani officer
put up resistance to the government representative later on. Ramil
Safarov's rights are protected by newly appointed Hungarian lawyer
Clara Fisher in this case.

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Second Trial Of Ramil Safarov Starts In Budapest Today

SECOND TRIAL OF RAMIL SAFAROV STARTS IN BUDAPEST TODAY

YEREVAN, JANUARY 17. ARMINFO. The second trial of the Azeri
assassin-officer Ramil Safarov is starting in Budapest today.

Azeri media report that defending Safarov will be Hungarian lawyer
Clara Fischer with no Azeri lawyers invited. Representing Azerbaijan
at the trial will be employees of the Azeri embassy in Budapest. The
trial will consider the June 2004 incident between Safarov and his
wardens. This may give him additional 2 years besides possible 15 years
or even life in jail for killing an Armenian officer in Budapest Feb
19 2004.