AZERBAIJANIS PASS OFF THE PICTURE OF SERVICEMAN KILLED DURING LAST YEAR’S RUSSIAN- GEORGIAN WAR AS ARMENIAN SOLDIER ‘KILLED’ YESTERDAY

ArmInfo
2009-09-11 13:25:00

ArmInfo. The regular casus has happened with the Azerbaijani propaganda
machine. This time, at attempt has been made to pass off the picture
of a serviceman killed during last year’s Russian-Georgian war as an
Armenian soldier ‘killed’ yesterday.

To recall, the Azerbaijani mass media reported yesterday on the alleged
skirmish in Aghdam direction, death of five and wound of three Armenian
soldiers. By the way, the information was not confirmed even by the
Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan. The NKR DM just refuted it and called
it disinformation of propaganda nature. More interesting details were
cleared up today.

According to the information by spokesman of Armenia’s Defense
Ministry, Colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan, a picture of the Armenian
soldier "killed" yesterday was placed at vesti.az site in
"confirmation" of the reports on the alleged skirmish and death of
the Armenian soldiers. Actually, this is a picture of a Georgian
soldier, killed during the last year’s Russian-Georgian war, and,
earlier, it was already placed at the Russian Communist party’s
site The Defense Ministry of Armenia considers this
fact, as well as the statements by the Azerbaijani ‘military expert’
Uzeir Jafarov and a cheap game of the Azerbaijani media as a regular
attempt to raise the ‘fighting spirit’ in its own army and public
and destabilize the situation at a time.