Baku Today, Azerbaijan
March 18 2007
Azerbaijani soldier killed by Armenian sniper: official
18/03/2007 14:29
An Azerbaijani soldier has been killed by an Armenian sniper near the
disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, violating a ceasefire between
the two ex-Soviet states, Azerbaijani authorities said Friday.
Private Dilgam Sirinov was killed Thursday by fire from an Armenian
sniper on the territory of the Agdam region, the defence ministry
said in a statement.
Armenian forces seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan during a war
in the early 1990s that claimed an estimated 35,000 lives and forced
about a million people on both sides to flee their homes.
A ceasefire was signed in 1994, but the two countries have cut direct
economic and transport links and failed to negotiate a settlement on
the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are spread across the ceasefire line,
often as little as a few dozen metres apart, and shootings are
common.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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