"HE STOPPED AND SHOT FOR NO REASON WHATEVER"

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[02:29 pm] 21 November, 2008

Deterioration of Armenian-Azerjainai relations is well perceived in
Armenian frontier villages Aygedzor and Chinari. The Azeri side opens
machine gun-fire on Armenian settlements almost every day.

The villages of Aygedzor and Chinari are respectively 1700 and 800
metres away from Azeri posts.

Residents of Chinari don’t leave their homes for fear of the
worst. Even burials take place at night as people don’t want to die of
an enemy bullet. Local residents say Azeris have turned their village
into "a bomb-sight" and continue bombarding with massive shells.

"As soon as Azeri servicemen get blind drunk they become fearless
and open fire at Armenian posts and settlements. This mainly happens
in the evenings when they get used of the command’s absence," say
Armenian commanding officers.

"Everyone shoots there. Once I was looking through binoculars, and
saw a man with a knapsack passing by. All of a sudden he stоpped,
picked up a machine-gun and began shooting in our direction," said
Commander of N front-line unit Movses Sargsyan.

He says Azeris’ unruliness knows no limits. They violate ceasefire
even before the monitoring when representatives of the International
Committee of the Red Cross are deployed on the contact-line.

During intensive bombardments residents of Chinari hide in
the neighbouring village, Aygedzor, which lies in a gulf and is
inaccessibility for the enemy gun. Nevertheless, people don’t feel
secure in Aygedzor either.

I am afraid to till the land. Hectares of lands lie uncultivated. A few
days ago one of our fellow villagers lost 20 pigs but he didn’t dare to
look for the astray animals," said Aygedzor resident Hamlet Saghamyan.

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