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Azerbaijani taken hostage by Armenian frontier guards speaks out

23 January 2010 20:09 (UTC +04:00)

Marneuli. Nizami Mammadzadeh â€“ APA. Azerbaijani citizen taken hostage by Armenian frontier guards on Georgia-Armenia border on the night of January 21-22 released after the Georgian police interference, APAâ€™s correspondent of Georgia bureau said.

Today, APAâ€™s correspondent of Georgia bureau in Sadakhli met with Azerbaijani citizen taken hostage by Armenian frontiers and talked with him about the details of how incident happened.

As V. Naibov, taken hostage said, there have been recently problems with Armenians on the frontline. Since the front line is close the residential areas, the cattle or even people often pass the border accidentally.

Armenian frontiers told that they captured 33-year old Azerbaijani citizen V.Naibov at a place close to the border line while he was grazing the cattle.

â€œIt was so cold, that I was shivering. Therefore I began to set up fire, when I realized that the ships had already passed the border. While I was trying to make them return, a lieutenant and a soldier captured me taking to the tent located in the forest, where were a group of soldiers in military forms. When we arrived there, their head made call to the military base located near the Jojkan village. Then, they received the order to keep the ships there, and take me to the military base. Then I was taken to the military base located 10-12km away from the Jojkan village. They spoke with me both in Azeri and Armenian language there. Their Russian was much better. After two days of keeping me there, the Georgian police intervened in the incident and they released me at lastâ€.

V.Naibov added that, there were tens of such cases in Sadakhli, Burma, Tezeknd, Khulderen villages, when the peaceful citizens was taken hostage and after Georgian interference freed. â€œAnd sometimes it caused even deathsâ€.