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    Azeris "have buried" their struggle for Karabakh - Armenian TV

    Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
    31 Aug 04

    [Presenter] Several Azerbaijani human rights and women's organizations
    defending the male members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization
    [KLO, sentenced to prison for anti-Armenian rallies] have said that
    with the Karabakh activists' trial, the Azerbaijani court has buried
    the struggle for Karabakh.

    Some officials and mass media went as far as describing Ramil
    Safarov who killed an Armenian officer during NATO exercises [in
    Hungary in February] as a national hero, while at the same time an
    Azeri court sentenced the [anti-Armenian] activists to five year's
    imprisonment for staging a protest at a NATO planning conference
    [in Baku, in June]. A remark from [late Azerbaijani President]
    Heydar Aliyev, who was elevated to a god-like status during his life
    and posthumously, has even been brought up, when he reportedly said:
    "Why are you constantly repeating: Karabakh, Karabakh? It is just a
    land of stones and mountains."

    [Correspondent Aykaram Nahapetyan] The trial of the six Azerbaijani
    KLO activists infuriated Azerbaijani society and political circles
    alike. [Passage omitted: Azeri female human rights activists Novella
    Cafaroglu, Saida Qocamanli and Leyla Yunus condemned the ruling.]

    The Azerbaijani newspaper Novoye Vremya attacking [Azerbaijani
    President] Ilham Aliyev, called him a pro-Armenian official. The
    newspaper also suggested that the Azerbaijani government would not
    fight for Nagornyy Karabakh, since Heydar Aliyev once said that
    Azeris do not need Karabakh because Karabakh is a land of stones
    and mountains.
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