Hungary Remembered Azeri Axe-Murderer Ramil Safarov

• 04.29.2016, 14:57
•  Region,  World

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Voros Szabolcs, a Hungarian journalist, who has recently visited Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and got acquainted with the situation with his own eyes, has recently published an article in the Hungarian ORIGO, remembering the Azeri axe-murderer Ramil Safarov. Below you can read the English translation of the article done by the author:

"After years (of silence) the infamous axe-murderer from Azerbaijan, Ramil Safarov apperead in the Azeri news. He showed up – presumably with demonstrative intentions – at the funeral of the pilots of a helicopter downed during the Azeri-Armenian clashes erupted in early April.

At the presence of Azerbaijan’s defence ministry’s top officials a funeral was held on Monday for the four-member-crew of the Mi-24 military helicopter shot down by the Armenian self-defence forces of Karabakh. Majors Tabriz Musazade and Urfan Valizade, senior lieutenant Bakir Ismayilov and lieutenant colonel Murad Mirzayev will be layed to rest in Baku’s war heroes’ park.

The helicopter was shot down in early April when fightings erupted in the contact zone between the de facto country of Nagorno Karabakh – which operates within the territory of Azerbaijan – and the Azeri army. It was the fiercest clash between the two since their bloody war between 1988 and 1994. Both sides admitted to lose dozens of soldiers while leaders of the great powers urged the Karabakh-backing leadership of Yerevan and the government in Baku to remain calm. Last of them, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev visited to two capitals although it was revealed in Baku that Moscow wouldn’t stop its weapon transports (to Azerbaijan) despite the bloodshed.

However at the funeral of the four-member-crew of the Mi-24 a rarely-seen figure appeared: he was Ramil Safarov who murdered his sleeping fellow Armenian soldier, Gurgen Margaryan at a NATO military course held in Budapest in 2004. Safarov was life sentenced in Hungary in 2007 and in autumn of 2012 was transfered to his homeland where – despite Azerbaijan’s guarantee and instead of prison guards – president Ilham Aliyev welcomed him with a pardon. He also appointed the former imprisoned lieutenant to major who got his 8-year military pay in one sum. After the scandal he was hidden from publicity, right until now. Although he was not specifically named by the Azeri news sources, he appears in a few pictures about the funeral published by the Russian-language news site Vesti – the state news agency Azertac was not that careless.

As a reply to the 2012 Safarov case, Armenia has cut her diplomatic ties with Hungary which could not have been fixed so far."