Armenian army takes another Azeri private hostage
Private Eldaniz Nuriyev of the Azerbaijani army was taken hostage by the Armenian troops near Fizuli District on 31 December. The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] has already been informed of the incident, the state commission for hostages and missing people told ANS TV.
In December 2006, two Azerbaijani soldiers were captured by Armenia. One of them, Vuqar Qaracayev was handed over to Azerbaijan on 23 December. However, Samir Mammadov, who was captured on 24 December, is still being held hostage in Armenia.
Back to Top
AZERI SERVICEMAN SURRENDERED
On December 24, Azeri armless serviceman Samid Mamedov (b. in 1987) approached one of the Ijevan military units and surrendered.
Mamedov claims that he made this step as he was constantly beaten and teased by his officers. Samid Mamedov has been serving for a year.
The investigation is under way, RA Defense Ministry reports.
http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=44261
Back to Top
The families of thousands of people who went missing during the 1990s Balkans wars urged the authorities in the region on Saturday to deliver answers about the fate of their missing relatives.
"The government authorities have an obligation to provide answers about the fate of their missing citizens," the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) said in a statement.
"Family members will continue to exert pressure on the highest-level political leaders in the region to do everything in their power to enable the release of information and to speed up the process of resolving this important regional human rights issue."
The appeal was launched after a conference that gathered more than 60 representatives of associations representing families of missing persons and relevant government institutions from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, UN-administered Serbian province of Kosovo and international
organisations.
The participants have met over the past three days in the northeastern Bosnian town of Brcko.
"Associations' representatives believe that resolving the issue of missing persons should be a pre-condition for European integration of this region," the ICMP said.
The ICMP is a Bosnia-based inter-governmental organisation founded in 1996.
It is leading the process to identify remains and reveal the fate of some 40,000 people who went missing across the whole of the former Yugoslavia since it was shattered by a series of wars in the early 1990s. The fate of around half of them is still unknown, according to the ICMP.
SARAJEVO, Nov 25, 2006 (AFP)
Back to Top
THEY DEMAND TO MAKE A FAIR DESICION
The advocates of soldiers Razmik Sargsyan, Musa Serobyan and Arayik Zalyan turned to Court of Cassation on June 9, 2006, but the Court has not yet made a decision. According to the advocates, it contradicts the European convention on Human rights, the RA Criminal Code and the Constitution.
The advocates sent an application to the Court of Cassation to investigate the case within the defined period of time. Many RA citizens, public and political figures and NGOs have also sent an open letter to the Court demanding to make a fair decision.
At present Razmik Sargsyan is in the hospital of Noubarashen prison with tuberculosis. According to his doctor, Razmik's situation is not dangerous.
"A1+ on-line", 18.10.2006
Back to Top
<BACK
