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Italian news provider referred to Karen Petrosyan’s tragic death

Italian news provider referred to Karen Petrosyan’s tragic death

YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, ARMENPRESS. Italian Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (OBC) online news provider referred to the tragic death of Karen Petrosyan, who had been taken captive by Azerbaijan. As reports “Armenpress”, the Italian news provider introduces the story of Karen Petrosyan, a thirty-one year-old Armenian villager of Chinari, who died in Azerbaijani captivity.

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso writes that a person from the same village as Petrosyan said he went lost fetching wood, another that he was drunk, while for Baku he was just a saboteur and a spy. Yet, an interview conducted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with Farida Tagiyeva, the first person Petrosyan encountered after crossing the border, tips the balance in favour of the Armenian interpretation. According to Tagiyeva and other people of the village, the man, who had approached her asking for tea, was unarmed and in civilian clothes. As a proof, an amateur video depicts a bewildered Petrosyan answering questions in Russian made by the inhabitants of Ağbulaq.

In what has been also a propaganda escalation, the same Petrosyan appears later in a video posted online dressed in military uniform, while he confesses to a senior military officer to be an agent. A large range of weapons are shown to prove the assumption. The next morning, Karen Petrosyan was declared dead by the Baku Ministry of Defence, officially “due to an acute heart and lung failure.” The Armenian authorities, who are convinced that the man was tortured and killed instead, asked an autopsy of the body of Petrosyan by an independent panel of international experts.

According to the Italian news provider, no less alarming was the bellicose rhetoric displayed by the authorities in Baku. The Twitter profile of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been filled on August 7 by a remarkable series of threats, accusations and boasts of military superiority directed against the “Armenian barbarians and vandals”. On the following day, there was a statement by the Defence Minister Hafiz Heydarov, who said he was ready, if necessary, to destroy the Armenian capital Yerevan with its missiles.

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso also writes that it is no coincidence that together with the military escalation and rhetoric, there has been an unprecedented wave of repression in Azerbaijan. The crisis between the two countries seems at the moment to have subsided, after a series of meetings held on August 9 and 10 in Sochi between President Aliyev, his Armenian counterpart Sargsyan, and Vladimir Putin. Starting from those days, there was a return to relative calm on the border. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso concludes that among the few positive notes of these days is a call for peace in Karabakh signed, during the hottest days of the conflict, by various representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society, as well as by some international experts.




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