Azeri pressure group desecrates British memorial
ANS TV, Baku
15 Sep 05
A group of members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization’s [KLO]
youth council have spattered black paint over the monument to British
soldiers [who fought against Turkish troops in 1918] not far from the
Martyrs’ Avenue.
This was done in protest against another visit by Deputy Speaker of
the British House of Lords Baroness Caroline Cox to [the breakaway
region of] Nagornyy Karabakh.
The KLO demanded that the memorial be removed from the Martyrs’ Avenue
and that Cox stop her visits to Nagornyy Karabakh.
[Assa-Irada news agency, Baku, in Russian 0400 gmt 14 Sep 05 said that
Cox has become the “tool of Armenia’s propaganda machine”]
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