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Italian news provider referred to Karen Petrosyan's tragic death
19:13, 22 August, 2014
YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, ARMENPRESS. Italian Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
(OBC) online news provider referred to the tragic death of Karen
Petrosyan, who had been taken captive by Azerbaijan. As reports
`Armenpress', the Italian news provider introduces the story of Karen
Petrosyan, a thirty-one year-old Armenian villager of Chinari, who
died in Azerbaijani captivity.
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso writes that a person from the same
village as Petrosyan said he went lost fetching wood, another that he
was drunk, while for Baku he was just a saboteur and a spy.
Yet, an interview conducted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with
Farida Tagiyeva, the first person Petrosyan encountered after crossing
the border, tips the balance in favour of the Armenian interpretation.
According to Tagiyeva and other people of the village, the man, who
had approached her asking for tea, was unarmed and in civilian
clothes. As a proof, an amateur video
depicts a bewildered Petrosyan answering questions in Russian made by
the inhabitants of AÄ?bulaq.
In what has been also a propaganda escalation, the same Petrosyan
appears later in a video posted online dressed in military uniform,
while he confesses to a senior military officer to be an agent. A
large range of weapons are shown to prove the assumption. The next
morning, Karen Petrosyan was declared dead by the Baku Ministry of
Defence, officially `due to an acute heart and lung failure.' The
Armenian authorities, who are convinced that the man was tortured and
killed instead, asked an autopsy of the body of Petrosyan by an
independent panel of international experts.
According to the Italian news provider, no less alarming was the
bellicose rhetoric displayed by the authorities in Baku. The Twitter
profile of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been filled on
August 7 by a remarkable series of threats, accusations and boasts of
military superiority directed against the `Armenian barbarians and
vandals'. On the following day, there was a statement by the Defence
Minister
Hafiz Heydarov, who said he was ready, if necessary, to destroy the
Armenian capital Yerevan with its missiles.
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso also writes that it is no coincidence
that together with the military escalation and rhetoric, there has
been an unprecedented wave of repression in Azerbaijan. The crisis
between the two countries seems at the moment to have subsided, after
a series of meetings held on August 9 and 10 in Sochi between
President Aliyev, his Armenian counterpart Sargsyan, and Vladimir
Putin.
Starting from those days, there was a return to relative calm on the
border. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso concludes that among the few
positive notes of these days is a call for peace in Karabakh signed,
during the hottest days of the conflict, by various representatives of
the Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society, as well as by some
international experts.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/773438/italian-news-provider-referred-to-karen-petrosyan%E2%80%99s-tragic-death.html
19:13, 22 August, 2014
YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, ARMENPRESS. Italian Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
(OBC) online news provider referred to the tragic death of Karen
Petrosyan, who had been taken captive by Azerbaijan. As reports
`Armenpress', the Italian news provider introduces the story of Karen
Petrosyan, a thirty-one year-old Armenian villager of Chinari, who
died in Azerbaijani captivity.
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso writes that a person from the same
village as Petrosyan said he went lost fetching wood, another that he
was drunk, while for Baku he was just a saboteur and a spy.
Yet, an interview conducted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with
Farida Tagiyeva, the first person Petrosyan encountered after crossing
the border, tips the balance in favour of the Armenian interpretation.
According to Tagiyeva and other people of the village, the man, who
had approached her asking for tea, was unarmed and in civilian
clothes. As a proof, an amateur video
depicts a bewildered Petrosyan answering questions in Russian made by
the inhabitants of AÄ?bulaq.
In what has been also a propaganda escalation, the same Petrosyan
appears later in a video posted online dressed in military uniform,
while he confesses to a senior military officer to be an agent. A
large range of weapons are shown to prove the assumption. The next
morning, Karen Petrosyan was declared dead by the Baku Ministry of
Defence, officially `due to an acute heart and lung failure.' The
Armenian authorities, who are convinced that the man was tortured and
killed instead, asked an autopsy of the body of Petrosyan by an
independent panel of international experts.
According to the Italian news provider, no less alarming was the
bellicose rhetoric displayed by the authorities in Baku. The Twitter
profile of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been filled on
August 7 by a remarkable series of threats, accusations and boasts of
military superiority directed against the `Armenian barbarians and
vandals'. On the following day, there was a statement by the Defence
Minister
Hafiz Heydarov, who said he was ready, if necessary, to destroy the
Armenian capital Yerevan with its missiles.
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso also writes that it is no coincidence
that together with the military escalation and rhetoric, there has
been an unprecedented wave of repression in Azerbaijan. The crisis
between the two countries seems at the moment to have subsided, after
a series of meetings held on August 9 and 10 in Sochi between
President Aliyev, his Armenian counterpart Sargsyan, and Vladimir
Putin.
Starting from those days, there was a return to relative calm on the
border. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso concludes that among the few
positive notes of these days is a call for peace in Karabakh signed,
during the hottest days of the conflict, by various representatives of
the Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society, as well as by some
international experts.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/773438/italian-news-provider-referred-to-karen-petrosyan%E2%80%99s-tragic-death.html