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    AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER KILLED NEAR KARABAKH: OFFICIAL

    Agence France Presse -- English
    January 28, 2008 Monday 11:18 AM GMT

    Armenian forces have killed an Azerbaijani soldier near the disputed
    region of Nagorny-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani defence ministry said
    Monday.

    Hatami Bahruz, 19, was killed when Armenian forces opened fire
    on Azerbaijani positions in the Fizuli region overnight Monday,
    violating a ceasefire, defence ministry spokesman Ilgar Verdiyev said.

    Armenian forces seized control of Nagorny-Karabakh from Azerbaijan
    in the early 1990s, in a war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives
    and forced about a million people on both sides to flee their homes.

    The two sides signed a ceasefire in 1994, but the two countries have
    cut direct economic and transport links and failed to negotiate a
    settlement on the region's status.

    Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are spread across a ceasefire line in
    and around Nagorny-Karabakh, often facing each other at close range,
    and shootings are common.

    In 2007, 13 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed along the ceasefire line,
    Verdiyev said.
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