Azeri pressure group desecrates British memorial

ANS TV, Baku
15 Sep 05

A group of members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization’s [KLO]
youth council have spattered black paint over the monument to British
soldiers [who fought against Turkish troops in 1918] not far from the
Martyrs’ Avenue.

This was done in protest against another visit by Deputy Speaker of
the British House of Lords Baroness Caroline Cox to [the breakaway
region of] Nagornyy Karabakh.

The KLO demanded that the memorial be removed from the Martyrs’ Avenue
and that Cox stop her visits to Nagornyy Karabakh.

[Assa-Irada news agency, Baku, in Russian 0400 gmt 14 Sep 05 said that
Cox has become the “tool of Armenia’s propaganda machine”]