YEREVAN, STEPANAKERT—Memorial events were held in Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Wednesday to honor Armenian Army officer Gurgen Markarian who was brutally murdered by Azeri axe-murderer Ramil Safarov while in Budapest in 2004.
Markarian, who would have turned 34 Wednesday, was honored at a special ceremony at Yerablur National Cemetery in Yerevan after a march organized to the final resting olace for fallen Armenian soldiers organized by Yerevan State University’s ‘Union of Young Students’ NGO, Yerkrapah Volunteer Union and Gurgen Margaryan NGO
“Every Armenian should realize that he could be in the place of Gurgen Margaryan and become the victim of Azerbaijan’s state policy,” Gevorg Melkonyan, head of the ‘Union of Young Students’ NGO, said in his remarks to participants.
“I express my condemnation of the Hungarian-Azerbaijani deal of Safarov’s extradition and announce on behalf of the Armenian youth that we stand by our state and army.”
Safarov, who was convicted of and was serving a life sentence for the brutal hacking of Markarian, was extradited by Hungary to Azerbaijan where he was immediately pardoned and turned into a national hero.
At the end of the march, participants laid flowers at the graves of Vazgen Sargsyan, General Antranig and Gurgen Markarian.
More than 3,000 marched in the streets of Stepanakert, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, to mark the slain soldier’s birthday and protest the injustice in Safarov’s extradition.
The world can put safarov on the international wanted list but. Let’s see
The man has a name! It is shameful to reduce his memory to being an “Axe-Murderer Victim.” Besides it’s “Axe Murderer’s Victim” or “Victim of an Axe Murderer,” anyway. Very disappointed in Asbarez on this one.
Yes,a name,coward,S.O.B,ugly turk,mongol,those are the names.never mention them by family name,there may be some one else human in that clan.
Please STOP displaying our Armenian HERO’S picture by the side of that coward!
You do realize I was speaking of Gurgen Markarian, may he rest in peace. The headline reduces him to being just some victim, an object. He was a living person with a family and served his country.
My apology for a misunderstanding!
fascist criminal tatar animals!
Well Safarov will have an orgy “Axe-party” with Aliev and Mehraban in presidential palace in fake Azer Baboons Sheikdom!! I wonder if they have any pride or human dignity left with these Turkic Tribes!! What a shame Mr. horsey brought for his uneducated Sheikdom, in a way they deserved to have a leader like him!!