Two Azerbaijani Citizens On Trial In Breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 27 October 2014 |
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Two Azerbaijani citizens went on trial in the country's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region on October 27.
Shahbaz Quliyev, 46, and Dilham Askerov, 54, are charged with murder, espionage, illegal border crossing, and illegal weapons posssession.
Authorities in the self-proclaimed government of Nagorno-Karabakh say they crossed into the breakaway region on July 12 and killed an officer in its military.
Azerbaijani officials say the self-proclaimed government, which is not recognized by any nation, has no legal right to try the men.
Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for years. Armenian-backed separatists seized the mainly Armenian-populated region from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people and displaced many more.
Diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict have brought little progress.
