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YEREVAN.- Yerevan State University’s “Young Universitarians’ Union” NGO held a march toward Yerablur Military Pantheon on Wednesday on the birth anniversary of Gurgen Margaryan, Armenian killed by Azerbaijani Ramil Safarov (photos).

The participants proceeded toward the Yerablur Church and then visited Gurgen Margaryan’s tomb to lay flowers.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon.

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Ramil Safarov’s pardoning is condemned by virtually all international organizations.

Photo by Sona Barseghyan

 

 

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