Author: Kanayan Tamar

NAIRIT WORKERS PROTEST IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT AND SPEAK TO MPS (VIDEO)

03.24.2015 18:30 epress.am

Today, the Nairit Factory workers continued their protest demanding
17 months’ worth of salaries in front of the Presidential Palace,
eventually walking toward the National Assembly and demanding to
speak to MPs.

Near the National Assembly gates, they were first met with the ARF-D
faction secretary Artsvik Minasyan, Heritage faction secretary Tevan
Poghosyan, Prosperous Armenia party faction member Mikayel Melkonyan.

Speaking to the protest participants, Poghosyan stated that not only
does the Nairit workers salary issue need to be resolved, but also
the relaunching of the Nairit factory. The MP brought up the issue
of competition of rubber production in the international market. He
noted that because many other companies in Armenia have also suspended
production, the issue of rubber production is a relevant one and
there is no demand for rubber.

The protesters did not agree with Poghosyan, claiming that rubber
is in demand in the international market as well. The MP once again
stated that it was not true, urging the protesters to be realistic
and objectively assess the situation.

The Nairit workers also demanded to meet with the chairman of
the National Assembly’s standing committee for economic affairs,
Republican Party member Vardan Ayvazyan. The latter suggested, during
a phone conversation, that a group of Nairit workers meet with him
in a closed space. However, the workers demanded that Ayvazyan came
down to them. The latter met with the protesters, who noted that this
was the first time they saw Ayvazyan “in public.”

The Republican was hurt by these words; “I’m usually seen around
other people. Hello, I’m Vardan Ayvazyan.”

The MP asked the workers to realize that even though he is the chairman
of the committee, he does not have any higher authority than other
committee members. Nevertheless, he promised to arrange a meeting with
the workers and the relevant bodies, including the Minister of Energy
Yervand Zakharyan. According to Ayvazyan, Zakharyan is currently on
a business trip, and a meeting will be organized after his arrival.

“Why did Zakharyan and Serzh Sargsyan go to China, so they can sell
the rest of the Nairit factory?” asked a woman within the participants.

Another participant said that they had met with Zakharyan without
Ayvazyan and that he was not helpful.

The MP stated that the factory had not worked for 5 years but people
received “loads of money.” “Every director of your factory says that
in order for Nairit to function, 900 employees are necessary. I’ve
recorded it, I have the audio. I am not a chemist, they are the ones
saying that that many workers are not necessary,” said Ayvazyan.

The latter statement hurt the workers, who expressed that it was
not their will to be on a forced leave. According to the protesters,
they have been continually promised that the factory would restart
its work. “And that is the thank you for being so patient in this
process and not migrating,” said a 60-year old man.

Note, that 1200 workers of Nairit factory are currently on a forced
leave, while another 1000 continued to work. At the end of the protest,
the workers formed a delegation in order to speak with MPs.

Tomorrow the Nairit workers will gather in front of their factory at
11 AM.

EVENT IN LEBANON DEDICATED TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL

13:20, 23 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

On March 20, a conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide was organized with joint efforts of leadership of “Notre Dame”
University and Lebanese Centennial Central body, in cooperation with
the Embassy of Armenia in Lebanon.

Ministers, parliamentarians, clergymen, leaders of political
parties, intelligentsia, journalists and students participated at
the conference, live streamed on Lebanese “OTV” TV channel.

In her remarks, Dr. Nata Saat Saper at “Notre Dame” University
mentioned that this year marks 100th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, and that Turkey continues denial policy, despite undeniable
historical facts and evidence.

Chairperson of Lebanese Centennial Central Body Seda Khtshyan briefed
about history of the Armenian Genocide. She mentioned that this event
is organized not only to commemorate the victims, but also to celebrate
victory, expression of power and will to life of our people.

Summarizing her speech, Chairperson noted, that the Armenian people
is to continue to restore justice and truth, creating and passing
down its rich history on the world.

Vice-President of the University Souhail Matar reflected on history of
the Armenian people and Armenian Genocide, speaking about massacres
committed in the Ottoman Empire, stressing the policy pursued by
Young Turks, and then by Ataturk. Dr. Matar summarized his speech
with following words, “Let the 100th anniversary open new doors to
the Armenian people for peace and justice.”

In his remarks, Ambassador of Armenia to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan
touched upon rich culture and history of the Armenian people, the
people, that having endured numerous deprivations and losses, always
fought for preservation of language, religion and values. Ambassador
thoroughly presented history of cross-stones, that are of great
historic value, as well as facts of genocide of culture against
historic-cultural values of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire
and in Azerbaijan.

He attached importance to the Pan-Armenian Declaration on the
100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide – the result of unity
and consolidation of the Armenian people. Ambassador highlighted,
that the Armenian people, walking heroic and glorious path of rebirth
and liberation, celebrates victory of life over death. Summarizing,
Ambassador mentioned that the Armenian people will continue fight
for restoration of justice, international recognition, condemnation
and elimination of all the consequences of the Genocide.

After the official speeches participants of the conference attended
cross-stone (dedicated to the Centennial) installation ceremony in
the garden of the University.

Sponsor, initiator of cross-stone installation, Sargis Budaqyan
mentioned that patriotism and loyalty for the Homeland united all
the people working on the initiative. He stressed that cross-stone
is gratitude expressed by the Armenians to the Lebanese people who
received with open arms and lent helping hand to the Armenian refugees.

TODAY’S ZAMAN: TURKEY’S POLITICIZATION OF GALLIPOLI HURTS NATIONAL LEGACY

13:01, 23 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The Turkish government’s move this year to invite political leaders
from around the world to commemorate World War I’s Gallipoli Campaign
on April 24-25, a date chosen to compete with Armenia’s centennial
commemoration of the Genocide, has only served to politicize the
Gallipoli legacy, which should be a source of pride for the Turkish
nation, Today’s Zaman writes.

Turkey traditionally commemorates its fallen soldiers in the Gallipoli
Campaign – also known as the Battle of Canakkale – on March 18. Only
two years ago, then-President Abdullah Gul marked the 98th anniversary
of the battle on that date. No one in Turkey at the time suggested
that it should be remembered on April 24. Turkey has commemorated the
battle – one of the bloodiest of World War I – on March 18 to coincide
with the day Britain started its bombardment of the Dardanelles.

The change in date of this year’s commemorations has been widely
perceived as a crude attempt to distract attention from Armenian
commemorations of the 1915 massacres and forced deportations which
decimated the Ottoman Armenian population, which Armenians commemorate
on April 24.

“The game TR gov’t is playing with Gallipoli – politicizing it to
compete with Armenian Genocide commemorations – is utterly disgusting,
in my opinion,” Alex Christie-Miller, an Istanbul-based journalist
working for The Times, Newsweek Europe and the Christian Science
Monitor, posted on his Twitter account on March 19.

Joost Lagendijk, a former Green Party deputy in the European Parliament
who also served as the co-chairman of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary
Committee, also criticized Turkey’s move to commemorate the Gallipoli
Campaign on the same day as the Armenian commemorations, calling
it a “shameless and all-too-transparent effort” to try and distract
attention from the Armenian “Genocide” in his Today’s Zaman column
on March 17. Lagendijk said that shifting the 100th anniversary
of the Gallipoli Campaign to the same day “won’t work and it will
unnecessarily discredit Turkey.”

Turkey’s move also offended Turkish citizens of Armenian descent.

Speaking to Agos ­- a Turkish-Armenian weekly formerly edited
by murder victim Hrant Dink — after Erdogan’s invitation, many
Turkish citizens of Armenian descent reacted strongly to Erdogan’s
invitation to Sargsyan, calling it a “joke” and an “ill-mannered”
act, and further criticizing it as a “political maneuver.”

Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), an
independent think tank in Yerevan, said the timing of the Gallipoli
invitation could not have been worse. In an email to Sunday’s Zaman
in late January, Giragosian stated that Erdogan’s move had triggered
an intense negative reaction in Armenia and tended to confirm the
perception of Turkey as an “insincere and unreliable interlocutor.”

Speaking to France 24, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to change this
year’s Gallipoli commemoration to coincide with Armenia’s marking of
the 100th anniversary of the genocide was a cynical act.”

GENOCIDE ARMENIEN : LE PRESIDENT SARKISSIAN DENONCE LE NEGATIONNISME D’ERDOGAN

FRANCE

Dans une interview exclusive accordee a France 24, le president
armenien Serge Sarkissian a regrette le choix de son homologue turc de
commemorer la bataille de Gallipoli le jour des ceremonies entourant
le 100e anniversaire du genocide armenien.

À un mois des commemorations du 100e anniversaire du genocide armenien
de 1915, le president Serge Sarkissian a denonce le “negationnisme”
du president turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dans une interview exclusive
a France 24. Il affirme que la decision d’Erdogan d’organiser en
Turquie des commemorations de la bataille de Gallipoli, le jour meme
des commemorations du genocide, est une “provocation”.

“Nous n’avons pas l’intention de faire de ces manifestations une sorte
d’hysterie anti-turque. L’un de nos objectifs est de faire un appel a
l’humanite toute entière pour lutter contre les genocides”, a affirme
le president armenien. “Nous voudrions commemorer le genocide armenien
en commun avec le peuple turc. C’est cet objectif qui etait a la base
des protocoles signes en 2009 pour le retablissement des relations. Un
objectif que je visais aussi avec mon invitation a la Turquie de se
rendre au Memorial en Armenie, le 24 avril. Malheureusement, nous nous
sommes heurtes a une demarche negationniste qui a trouve – pardon de
le dire ainsi Рune expression particuli̬rement cynique cette annee.

La bataille de Gallipoli n’a pas commence et s’est encore moins
achevee le 24 avril. C’est une sorte de blessure adressee au peuple
armenien. En meme temps, il est evident que c’est une demarche qui
vise a creer des obstacles a la commemoration du genocide armenien”,
a-t-il regrette.

Les ceremonies du 24 avril en Armenie, auxquelles assisteront Francois
Hollande et Vladimir Poutine notamment, doivent etre l’occasion
de dire non aux crimes contre l’humanite. Le president Sarkissian
regrette que la Turquie prefere “saboter” ce moment de solidarite
plutot que de s’y joindre.

Le chef d’Etat armenien a egalement souligne “avoir peur” d’une
nouvelle guerre contre l’Azerbaïdjan a propos de la region disputee
du Haut-Karabakh, où les tensions se sont accentuees ces derniers mois.

Mais il a affirme que l’Armenie etait “prete a se battre” s’il
le fallait.

Enfin, le president Sarkissian a dit craindre une “nouvelle guerre
froide” entre la Russie et l’Occident, tout en affirmant avoir de
“très bonnes relations” avec Vladimir Poutine. Le chef d’Etat armenien
a souligne ne pas craindre que son homologue russe ait des vues sur
les ex-republiques sovietiques comme l’Armenie.

voir la video

lundi 23 mars 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

AZERBAIDJAN. LES AUTORITES DOIVENT LIBERER IMMEDIATEMENT LE RESPONSABLE DE L’OPPOSITION

AZERBAIDJAN

Le gouvernement d’Azerbaïdjan doit repondre favorablement aux demandes
de la communaute internationale et liberer immediatement le dirigeant
d’opposition de premier plan Ilgar Mammadov, en faveur duquel le Comite
des ministres du Conseil de l’Europe vient de lancer un deuxième
appel, a declare Amnesty International. Cet homme a ete condamne,
il y a plus d’un an, a sept ans de prison sur des accusations forgees
de toutes pièces et motivees par des considerations politiques.

Les autorites azerbaïdjanaises ont ignore plusieurs demandes du
Conseil de l’Europe appelant a sa liberation a la suite d’un arret
de la Cour europeenne des droits de l’homme, qui a conclu qu’Ilgar
Mammadov avait ete arrete sans preuve et que le veritable objectif
de son incarceration etait de le reduire au silence ou de le punir
pour avoir critique le gouvernement.

>, a declare Denis Krivosheev, directeur
adjoint du programme Europe et Asie centrale d’Amnesty International.

>

L’avocat d’Ilgar Mammadov a recemment declare a Amnesty International
que son client subissait une pression permanente des autorites
penitentiaires, qui veulent lui faire signer des > dans
lesquels il demanderait une grâce au president Ilham Aliyev afin d’etre
libere. Il refuse de le faire car cela reviendrait a admettre sa >. L’avocat a ajoute que la sante d’Ilgar Mammadov se
degradait car il est detenu dans une cellule surpeuplee et enfumee,
avec 20 autres prisonniers.

Complement d’information

Ilgar Mammadov a ete arrete le 4 fevrier 2013 et inculpe d’incitation
a des violences de grande ampleur après s’etre rendu, pour temoigner
de la situation, sur les lieux d’emeutes qui avaient eclate la veille
dans le nord-ouest du pays.

Il a ete condamne a sept ans de prison par le tribunal de Sheki,
a Bakou, en mars 2014. En mai 2014, la Cour europeenne des droits de
l’homme a estime que son arrestation etait contraire a la Convention
europeenne des droits de l’homme. Cet arret a ete definitivement
confirme le 13 octobre 2014 lorsque la Cour de Strasbourg a rejete
le recours forme par le gouvernement azerbaïdjanais. Le 4 decembre
2014, le Comite des ministres du Conseil de l’Europe a exige qu’Ilgar
Mammadov soit libere >, mais sa demande est restee
lettre morte.

Ilgar Mammadov est l’un des 22 prisonniers d’opinion, au moins, qui
sont incarceres en Azerbaïdjan pour des raisons politiques et dont il
est question dans le dernier rapport d’Amnesty International intitule
Guilty of Defending Rights : Azerbaijan’s human rights defenders and
activists behind bars.

lundi 23 mars 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

ARMENIAN SERVICEMAN SUDDENLY DIES

11:18 * 23.03.15

Serviceman Hayk T. Margaryan (born 1992) died suddenly at one of the
military units of the Defense Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
(NKR), at about 5:15pm, on Sunday.

An investigation has been launched.

The NKR Ministry of Defense offers its condolences to the serviceman’s
family and friends.

A forensic examination has been scheduled.

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WILL REMAIN IN ALL ARCHIVES AROUND THE WORLD: DEPUTY HEAD OF RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVES

12:33, 23 March, 2015

YEREVAN, 23 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. The Russian version of the book “The
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Testimonies of Survivors:
Collection of Documents” was presented during an event held at the
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Russian Federation on March
19. As the Department of Press, Information and Public Relations of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia reports to
“Armenpress”, among the participants of the event were Ambassador
of the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation Oleg Yesayan,
members of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation I.

Chernishenko and Zh. Ivanova, Deputies of the Russian State Duma I.

Fakhritdinov and O. Arshbay, Deputy Head of the 4thDepartment for
the CIS at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation A.

Gromiko, member of the Public Council of the Russian Federation,
leaders of Russia’s public and scientific circles and Armenian
community organizations of Moscow, public and political figures, as
well as diplomats and journalists. The Russian version of the book
was published with the support of VAN NGO.

In his welcome speech, Ambassador Yesayan, on behalf of the embassy and
the All-Russian Committee on Coordination of the events dedicated to
the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, expressed gratitude to the
gathered for participating in the event and supporting the efforts
of the Committee. The Armenian Ambassador also attached importance to
the significance of the publication of the Russian version and noted
that it would help raise awareness of the Russian society about the
Armenian Genocide.

Author of the book, Director of the National Archives of Armenia
Amatuni Virabyan mentioned that the Russian version of the book was
an addition to the Armenian, English and Turkish versions of the book,
which is of pivotal significance for presenting the irrefutable facts
about the Armenian Genocide to the international community.

In her speech at the event, Deputy Head of the State Archive of
the Russian Federation Larisa Rogovaya mentioned that the Armenian
Genocide is one of the tragedies in history that the international
community will always remember the Armenian Genocide and that it will
remain in archives around the world.

Member of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation and the
Armenian-Russian inter-parliamentary cooperation committee Igor
Chernishenko emphasized that the international community is focused on
two epochal events this year, that is, the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide and the 70thanniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic
War. According to him, these two major events bring the Armenians
and Russians together in the fight for the restoration of historical
justice and against crimes against humanity.

The speakers cited irrefutable facts about the Ottoman Empire’s
anti-Armenian policy and the Armenian Genocide and attached importance
to the modernity of the Russian version of the collection of documents
in the fight against the policy of denial, frequent misinformation,
as well as reprinting and distortion of history.

TURQUIE
Un député demande devant le Parlement turc de faire face au génocide
des Arméniens

Le 18 Mars, le président du parlement turc, Cemil Cicek, a prononcé
une allocution lors de la session extraordinaire de la Grande
Assemblée nationale turque commémorant le centenaire de la bataille de
Canakkale, suivie par les discours des autres parlementaires.

Le député du Parti démocratique populaire pro-kurde Abdullah Levent
Tüzel a fait une déclaration au sujet des Arméniens qui a scandalisé
ses collègues députés.

“Nos compatriotes arméniens d’Anatolie se battaient courageusement à
Canakkale, cependant, les intellectuels arméniens ont été exilés
d’Istanbul la même année. Si nous reconnaissons notre patrimoine de la
bataille de Canakkale, alors nous devrions sans hésiter reconnaître
que les Arméniens ont été exilés ou massacrés pendant le génocide.
Nous devrions analyser en profondeur la politique qui a finalement
abouti à l’assassinat de Hrant Dink “, a dit Tuzler.

samedi 21 mars 2015,
Stéphane (c)armenews.com

Quad-Cities Online, IL
March 21 2015

Recalling another reason to ‘never forget’

By Jonathan Turner, [email protected] qconline.com

DAVENPORT — Raelene Ohanesian-Pullen is proud to be Armenian and will
share her family’s history with the area in several events marking a
somber anniversary.

The Davenport native, who is development director for the Figge Art
Museum, will play a key role in a documentary showing today at the
Figge, an interfaith prayer service Tuesday at St. Ambrose University,
and a talk Wednesday at Augustana College, all to mark the 100th
anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide during World War I.

“The genocide defines Armenian people. Because we have such a rich
culture and rich history, it would be a shame to say a people are
defined by something that historically happened,” Ms. Pullen said. “By
the same token, there is some definition, there is some strength,
there is some thing that causes us to have something different in our
hearts. I think it’s a gratefulness.

The Armenian genocide began April 24, 1915, carried out by the Turkish
government against the entire Armenian Christian population of the
Ottoman Empire and killed more than 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to
1923, according to armenian-genocide.org. Armenians were subjected to
deportation, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation.

Two victims were Ms. Pullen’s maternal great-grandparents. Her
maternal grandparents came to this country as orphans, settling
separately in Chicago. She didn’t know her father’s parents (also
Armenians) well, partly since her paternal grandfather died before she
was born, and her parents divorced.

“We have suffered a lot, as a Christian nation in a heavily Muslim
part of the world,” Ms. Pullen said. “Things that have happened to our
people happened because of our faith. It’s really a miracle for us to
be here today.”

Through the help of an older Armenian woman at Ellis Island, her
grandmother and another Armenian girl were brought to Chicago, and
raised as sisters. Ms. Pullen still is close to that other family.

“One of the things about Armenian people, once you find another
Armenian, they become a member of your family,” she said. “The reason
for that is because we’ve lost so much of our family, and we feel
close to other people.”

Her grandparents had an arranged marriage in 1920 and her mother was
born in 1930. Ms. Pullen’s grandparents were married for 77 years. She
visited them often in Chicago.

“My grandmother was the most amazing woman I have ever known,” she
said. “She took such pleasure in having events that were fun for
everyone and meaningful. Every Sunday at her house. She was an amazing
cook.”

After church, they had big dinners, and people would perform music and
recite poetry. “One of the things I learned most from her as a child,
they really believed in celebrating life,” Ms. Pullen said.

“They felt very fortunate to be alive. They felt a lot of guilt
because they had seen a lot of people die around them. They had so
much tragedy in their life. For my grandmother, it made her such a
strong Christian, because she felt our faith is what gets us through.”

An Armenian priest from the Chicago she attended is speaking at the
Tuesday and Wednesday events. Because there’s no Armenian church in
the Quad-Cities, Ms. Pullen and her husband, Scott, attend Trinity
Episcopal Church in Davenport.

For a social hour before the interfaith prayer service (including
representatives of Islam and Judaism), she’s preparing Armenian food
such as pahklava, a sweet pastry, and cheese boereg, a kind of pie.
There also will be Armenian music.

Armenia was a Soviet republic from 1920 until it became independent in
1991. There are 11 million Armenians worldwide, including about
483,000 in the U.S. Los Angeles has the biggest Armenian-American
population.

Ms. Pullen, who has visited Armenia several times, hopes the public
will learn about its rich culture and history, and need to prevent
further genocide around the world.

“It’s embarrassing we have genocide to this day, in Darfur,” she said.
“To think that what happened to the Armenian people had to happen, and
as a world we’re not any smarter for it. The Holocaust happened after
that, and it continues to happen.”

Ms. Pullen serves on a 12-member Armenian Genocide Remembrance
Committee of the Quad Cities, which formed last fall as an offshoot of
the area’s Holocaust Education Committee.

Group chairman Maxine Russman said Adolf Hitler used the Armenian
genocide as partial justification for his planned extermination of
Jews in Europe.

She said Hitler was quoted as saying, “Who still talks nowadays about
the extermination of the Armenians? The world didn’t do anything, and
he was right,” she said of the Armenian genocide.

Opposition leader facing pressure from prison officials to sign
confession requesting pardon from President

13:24 16/03/2015 >> LAW

The government of Azerbaijan must comply with international demands
and immediately set free prominent opposition leader Ilgar Mammadov,
after the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe made a
second call demanding his release, the human rights organization
Amnesty International’s statement reads.

It is highlighted in the statement that the Azerbaijani authorities
have ignored several requests for Mammadov’s release by the Council of
Europe following a European Court of Human Rights ruling that he had
been arrested without any evidence and that the actual purpose of his
detention had been to silence or punish him for criticising the
government.

“President Ilham Aliyev had the audacity to stand before the Council
of Europe last year and declare that freedom of expression,
association and assembly are assured in Azerbaijan. These have proven
to be empty words as his government has continued to openly defy the
European Court of Human Rights by refusing to release Ilgar Mammadov,”
said Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director of
Europe and Central Asia Program.

As the statement reads, keeping an innocent man in prison is an
ultimate act of disrespect for fundamental human rights. Ilgar
Mammadov is behind bars for lawfully exercising his right to freedom
of expression and must urgently be released.

Ilgar Mammadov’s lawyer recently told Amnesty International that his
client is facing continuous pressure from prison officials to sign a
confession requesting a pardon from President Ilham Aliyev in exchange
for his release. He has refused as this would amount to him
recognizing his “guilt.” The lawyer added that Ilgar Mammadov’s health
is deteriorating because he is being held in a crowded, smoke-filled
cell, along with 20 other inmates, the statement reports.

The organization reports that Ilgar Mammadov was arrested on 4
February 2013, on charges of inciting mass violence, after he
travelled to report on street riots which had broken out in northwest
Azerbaijan the previous day. Ilgar Mammadov was sentenced to seven
years in prison by Sheki Court in Baku in March 2014. The European
Court of Human Rights ruled in May 2014 that his arrest contravened
the European Convention on Human Rights. The judgment became final on
13 October 2014, when the Strasbourg Court rejected the appeal from
the government of Azerbaijan. The Committee of Ministers of the
Council of Europe demanded his release “without delay” on 4 December
2014. This request was ignored.

Related:

Committee of Ministers of CoE adopts resolution in case of arrested
Azerbaijani opposition politician

PACE condemns termination of Azerbaijani lawyer’s activities who was
defending civil society activists

Azerbaijani authorities blame oppositionists Tofig Yagublu and Ilgar
Mamedov in organizing riots in Ismayilli; they are arrested