Two Azeris hoist national flag in Armenian-controlled area

Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
15 Sep 05

Two Azerbaijanis living in Siberia have managed to hoist the
Azerbaijani national flag in the village of Sahlar in
Armenian-occupied Kalbacar District, the Azerbaijani commercial TV
station ATV reported on 14 September.

“I spent 16 days without food and water crossing the area guarded by
Armenians and Azerbaijanis and visited my sacred land of Kalbacar. For
me, Kalbacar and Sahlar are a second Mecca and Madina,” one of the
Azerbaijanis captioned as Dilqam said in an interview on 18 July 2005.

In his remarks to ATV, former Kalbacar resident Mirsayyaf Zamanli said
that this was Dilqam’s third visit to Kalbacar.

Video showed destroyed houses and facilities in the village of Sahlar
in Kalbacar. The video was filmed by a friend of Dilqam identified as
Sahbaz.

Azerbaijan’s Kalbacar District was occupied by Armenian troops on 2
April 1993.