Traitor deprived of citizenship

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Sept 6 2004

Baku, September 3, AssA-Irada

Alikram Humbatov, who was released from life imprisonment by a
presidential decree on Friday, has been deprived of Azerbaijani
citizenship.

Humbatov, who was not military trained and managed to receive the
rank of colonel within a short period thanks to his foreign supporters
and former defense minister Rahim Gaziyev, is noted with his handing
over the positions of the Azerbaijani military units in Garabagh to
Armenians and committing crimes against local residents. Humbatov,
who was collaborating with special service bodies of foreign countries,
which were against Azerbaijan’s independence and, who declared himself
the president of the self-proclaimed “Talish Mughan Republic” in
the summer of 1993, was sentenced to life imprisonment after Heydar
Aliyev came to power. Gaziyev played “a great role” in carrying out
Humbatov’s separatist actions.*