Budapest case - the murder of Gurgen Margaryan
The trial of Ramil Safarov is to be resumed on February 8th, 2005 in Budapest Hungary.
Breaking the wall of silence: call for action
During almost a year since the brutal murder of Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest American and European media has consistently stayed silent about what happened in Budapest as if nothing ever happened. We were able to track only a 51-word piece from The Guardian (In brief: Murdered at peace seminar. Feb 20, 2004 p.15), a news report from nytimes.com and one more from The Moscow Times (Brutal murder stokes Karabakh war passions, by Chloe Arnold. March 2, 2004).
The crime committed by the Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov shook the very basics of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, yet went on almost unnoticed by major news outlets. Probably it was the reluctance to loudly condemn the crime that became the reason why many Azerbaijani officials and public figures felt safe to strongly support the murderer and even worse—to make statements containing threats to Armenians worldwide. It was no wonder the murderer soon became something like a national hero in Azerbaijan.
Now with the trial of Ramil Safarov still going on it is important to break the wall of silence around the Budapest case.
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Budapest case - the murder of Gurgen Margaryan
