Why did Safarov show-up in his homeland?
According to Baku press reports, the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has compensated extradited army officer Ramil Safarov with back wages for the eight years he spent in an Hungarian jail for the murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan.
Reacting to the pardon granted by President Ilham Aliyev to extradited Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov, convicted of the 2004 murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, the U.S. State Department has expressed its deep concern.
The road sign pointing the way to the St. Grigor Monastery leads visitors along the edge of a deep canyon. We are in the forested mountains of Armenia’s Lori Marz, near the village of Dsegh. Walking down the path, we come across broken stone crosses covered in moss and the occasional undamaged ones.
When two nations engage in conduct circumventing and bartering justice, as Azerbaijan and Hungary have done in the case of convicted murderer Azeri Ramil Safarov of Armenian Gurgen Markaryan, their actions speak volumes about their lack of respect for the rule of international law and principles of post-conviction extradition and prisoner transfers.
With this Hungary inspired cannibal-monsters, encouraged criminals, paved the way for assassinations on the ethnic and religious grounds and proved that today’s Hungarian authorities do not deserve to be part of Europe and be considered a member of the European family, and all this is taking place in the heart of Europe and in front of the eyes of all mankind.
The Government of Hungary should have foreseen the implications of its decision to transfer Ramil Sahib Safarov, which effectively resulted in the termination of serving justice by a perpetrator of a murderous act. The Government of Hungary therefore shares moral responsibility for sponsoring a grave criminal act.
After all, it was at a NATO military exercise that Margaryan was murdered but the military alliance avoided any political evaluation, and thus, by encouraging Baku’s anti-Armenian stance and freeing the hands of member state Hungary, facilitating the despicable transaction between the two some eight years later
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