Talk:Ramil Safarov
Despite the 1994 cease-fire, soldiers, officers, and civilians continue to die due to the constant low-intensity war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over NK and other occupied regions. Every year dozens of people die in sniper fire and mines on the Line Contact, by now their numbers being at least one thousand. So why should Ramil Safarov have a page in Wikipeda -- he is just one of the victims, who has killed himself and saw killings all around himself coming from a refugee family -- and not Armenian Army Lt-Colonel Pargev Abrahamyan, who also used an axe, but to kill his wife, not enemy combatant?
The story of Ramil Safarov is somewhat complicated, as, like many other refugees, being another victim of the Karabakh occupation by Armenia -- which made hundreds of thousands of people poor and desperate, and turned some of them, like Safarov, to desperate measures, multiplied due to post-war stress and experience as a refugee child. Today’s condition of Ramil’s birthplace, the region of Jebrail in south-western Azerbaijan, near Karabakh region: the village was destroyed by Armenians, several relatives of Ramil who were killed by Armenians, and the region still under Armenian occupation.
The President and government of Azerbaijan have condemned such actions and expressed condolences to the family of Lt. Markarian. Meanwhile, both individuals were military men, able bodied, strong, young yet inexperienced, with hot-heads. Same cannot be said about a senior Armenian army representative, Lt-Colonel Pargev Abrahamyan, who killed his sleeping wife with an axe.
By Gayane Abrahamyan ArmeniaNow reporter
Published in: “ArmeniaNow” (http://www.armenianow.com), 11 April 2006 (Official translation)
Two Years Of Imprisonment For A Murderer
Contributed by Eduard Grigoryan, Women's Rights Center
The Malatia-Sebastia community Court of the first instance (judge – Tigran Petrosyan) sentenced Lieutenant-Colonel Pargev Abrahamyan, officer of the Headquarters of the RA Defense Ministry, to two years of imprisonment for killing his wife, Marine Maloyan, with an axe. Successors of the victim intend to file an appeal against this verdict of the court.