Azerbaijani civilian killed near Karabakh

Armenian forces killed an Azerbaijani civilian near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani media reported Monday.

ANS television and the Azeri Press Agency said a 41-year-old man was killed on Sunday when separatist forces opened fire on Azerbaijani positions in the Goranboy region on the de facto border with Karabakh.

The Nagorno-Karabakh administration denied its forces had killed a civilian and accused Azerbaijani soldiers of repeatedly firing on its positions over the weekend.

Officials with Azerbaijan’s defense ministry could not be reached for comment.

Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces said in a statement that Azerbaijani soldiers had fired on its positions over the weekend and on Monday, but called reports of the civilian being killed “propaganda” from Baku.

“This disinformation from Baku in no way conforms to reality,” the statement said.

Backed by Yerevan, ethnic Armenian forces seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, in a war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.

Source: Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=azerbaijani-civilian-killed-near-karabakh-2009-11-23

Posted by admin November 2009

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