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[quote] YEREVAN — Armenia warned Azerbaijan it was ready for war as tensions soared Monday between the ex-Soviet foes after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev last week immediately pardoned Ramil Safarov after he was extradited from Hungary, where he had been serving a life sentence for the 2004 killing. Safarov was also promoted to the rank of major, given a house and eight years' worth of back-pay after returning home to a hero's welcome, in defiance of assurances from Baku to Budapest that he would serve out his term in Azerbaijan.
"We don't want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are not afraid of killers, even if they enjoy the protection of the head of state," Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian fumed in a statement late on Sunday.
"They (Azerbaijanis) have been warned," he said, calling Azerbaijan a country where "illicit orders set free and publicly glorify every bastard who kills people only because they are Armenians".
Safarov hacked Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian to death at a military academy in Budapest where the servicemen were attending English-language courses organised by NATO.
His lawyers claimed in court that he was traumatised because some of his relatives had been killed during Azerbaijan's war with Armenia, and alleged that Margarian had insulted his country.[/quote]
No, it's just empty threats. Tensions and all, but it's not gonna be war, at least not in the near future anyway.
I know a armanian guy who his family got butchered in front of his own eyes in that war.
That exclave is some stupid shit.
Could this be a translation error or something? I very much doubt they'd actually start a war.
Is there a land dispute or do they just hate each other because religion?
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37525292]Could this be a translation error or something? I very much doubt they'd actually start a war.[/QUOTE]
They've had a few wars with each other before, the Nagorno-Karabak war being most recent if I remember things correctly. The translation is correct, but they've cooled down enough now, and won't start another war over something like this. I'm no expert on the conflict, I'll admit, I just have a rough sketch of it in my head, but I'd be amazed if they broke into war soon.
[QUOTE=The mouse;37525333]Is there a land dispute or do they just hate each other because religion?[/QUOTE]
read the article?
turks vs arab/turk/whateverthefucktheyare
gun be fun
isnt jim belushi albanian?
How is Jim Belushi being Albanian related to the thread?
Jim Belushi's sitcom was as terrible as this war would be.
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