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RAZM.INFO: AZERBAIJANI PRO-GOVERNMENT MEDIA FIRST WROTE THEN REMOVED NEWS ABOUT UNCONFIRMED LOSS IN ARMY
17:31 02/04/2015 >> REGION
Azerbaijani state information agency AzerTAc reported an unconfirmed
loss in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The news was rewritten
by several pro-governmental media, however, the next day in the
evening the publications regarding this topic were removed from the
news outlets loyal to the authorities, Armenian military-analytical
outlet Razm.info writes in an article about methods of the Ministry
of Defense of Azerbaijan to hide the losses in the army.
According to the article, on March 28, Azerbaijani state information
agency AzerTAc reported that officer and senior lieutenant of the
Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Ahmadov Igbal Serraf oglu, born in 1980,
had died in the direction of Aghdam on the line of contact earlier
in the day. It was also noted in the article that he was buried under
volleys in the presence of the commanders of the military unit where
he served. Akhmadov was buried in his native village of Ashagi Nyuvedi,
district Lankaran.
The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not make
an official statement concerning the death of the senior lieutenant
Igbal Ahmadov, however, a number of Azerbaijani media, including
pro-governmental information agency APA reported the death of the
officer citing the publication of AzerTAc. The article about Igbal
Ahmadov's funeral was posted on APA's site on March 29 in the morning,
Razm.info writes.
As the article has it, the publication about a senior lieutenant's
death on the website of a pro-governmental or loyal to the authorities
information agency at first seemed to be one of the exceptional cases,
when the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan decided to report the loss
in order to create an illusion for the population of the country
that the losses are not hidden. However, the events that followed
showed something quite different: on 29 March in the evening the
articles covering the topic were removed from the websites of the
above-mentioned information agencies and a number of other news
services. Nonetheless, both AzerTAc's and APA's articles, that were
first published and then removed, were saved in the Google search
engine database cache.
The outlet reminds that this is not the first case. On March 24,
Azerbaijani news outlet Moderator.az, citing its own sources, reported
that a soldier from one of the military units in Jalilabad district,
Yusifov Semerhan Etibar oglu, had been killed by his fellow soldier.
The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not
comment on the information, and the publication was removed from the
website on the following day.
A similar case was detected by the specialists on March, 26 when it was
known from the Azerbaijani non-official open sources that a contract
serviceman, Kazimov Etibar Khudavi oglu, was killed on the line of
contact of the troops. The information was posted on the website of
the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat on March 26; however, it was
removed a little later, again being saved only in the Google search
engine database. On the next day, on March 27, the press office of
the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan was obliged to admit the fact
of the military loss only after the information was widely spread in
the social media.
As the article has it, yet another time concrete facts reaffirm that
the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan takes up various measures in
attempt to hide the real number of the losses in the army from its
own population trying to make an impression of 'victorious actions.'
"Nonetheless, 'the victorious picture' is sometimes distorted because
of this kind of slips, which forces the Azerbaijani authorities to
make use of such brutal methods as removing the materials - that have
already spread in the social networks - from information websites,"
the outlet concludes.
Note also that since early 2015 the Azerbaijani government agencies
acknowledged the death of 13 servicemen: according to official
information, 9 of them were combat deaths on the frontline.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/04/02/azerbaijan-army/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
17:31 02/04/2015 >> REGION
Azerbaijani state information agency AzerTAc reported an unconfirmed
loss in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The news was rewritten
by several pro-governmental media, however, the next day in the
evening the publications regarding this topic were removed from the
news outlets loyal to the authorities, Armenian military-analytical
outlet Razm.info writes in an article about methods of the Ministry
of Defense of Azerbaijan to hide the losses in the army.
According to the article, on March 28, Azerbaijani state information
agency AzerTAc reported that officer and senior lieutenant of the
Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Ahmadov Igbal Serraf oglu, born in 1980,
had died in the direction of Aghdam on the line of contact earlier
in the day. It was also noted in the article that he was buried under
volleys in the presence of the commanders of the military unit where
he served. Akhmadov was buried in his native village of Ashagi Nyuvedi,
district Lankaran.
The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not make
an official statement concerning the death of the senior lieutenant
Igbal Ahmadov, however, a number of Azerbaijani media, including
pro-governmental information agency APA reported the death of the
officer citing the publication of AzerTAc. The article about Igbal
Ahmadov's funeral was posted on APA's site on March 29 in the morning,
Razm.info writes.
As the article has it, the publication about a senior lieutenant's
death on the website of a pro-governmental or loyal to the authorities
information agency at first seemed to be one of the exceptional cases,
when the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan decided to report the loss
in order to create an illusion for the population of the country
that the losses are not hidden. However, the events that followed
showed something quite different: on 29 March in the evening the
articles covering the topic were removed from the websites of the
above-mentioned information agencies and a number of other news
services. Nonetheless, both AzerTAc's and APA's articles, that were
first published and then removed, were saved in the Google search
engine database cache.
The outlet reminds that this is not the first case. On March 24,
Azerbaijani news outlet Moderator.az, citing its own sources, reported
that a soldier from one of the military units in Jalilabad district,
Yusifov Semerhan Etibar oglu, had been killed by his fellow soldier.
The press office of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan did not
comment on the information, and the publication was removed from the
website on the following day.
A similar case was detected by the specialists on March, 26 when it was
known from the Azerbaijani non-official open sources that a contract
serviceman, Kazimov Etibar Khudavi oglu, was killed on the line of
contact of the troops. The information was posted on the website of
the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat on March 26; however, it was
removed a little later, again being saved only in the Google search
engine database. On the next day, on March 27, the press office of
the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan was obliged to admit the fact
of the military loss only after the information was widely spread in
the social media.
As the article has it, yet another time concrete facts reaffirm that
the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan takes up various measures in
attempt to hide the real number of the losses in the army from its
own population trying to make an impression of 'victorious actions.'
"Nonetheless, 'the victorious picture' is sometimes distorted because
of this kind of slips, which forces the Azerbaijani authorities to
make use of such brutal methods as removing the materials - that have
already spread in the social networks - from information websites,"
the outlet concludes.
Note also that since early 2015 the Azerbaijani government agencies
acknowledged the death of 13 servicemen: according to official
information, 9 of them were combat deaths on the frontline.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/04/02/azerbaijan-army/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress