ARMENIA PROMISES RETAILATION FOR SEPARATIST SOLDIERS KILLED BY AZERIS

Washington Post

Nov 21 2011

YEREVAN, Armenia – Armenia says it will retaliate for the weekend
killings of two ethnic Armenian soldiers by Azeri snipers who fired
into a disputed breakaway enclave.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous enclave within the Caspian Sea
nation of Azerbaijan, but since the end of a six-year separatist war
in 1994 it has been under the control of Armenian troops and ethnic
Armenian forces.

Violations of the 1994 cease-fire have been frequent, and Armenian
authorities said two servicemen from Nagorno-Karabakh were killed
Sunday and Saturday.

Armenia’s Defense Ministry spokesman David Karapetian said Monday
the retaliation for the soldiers’ deaths will be “disproportionate.”

His Azeri counterpart, Teymur Abdullayev, said a shootout at the
border was provoked by Armenians.