Uzeir Cafarov: "It is time to stop the disgraceful practice which has become a fashion in the Defense Ministry"

"This tragic event occurred on October 25", said independent military expert Uzeir Cafarov commenting on the information that soldier Hasan Allahverdiyev shot himself while being on the military post. "Hasan Allahverdiyev was shot by a commander of his unit.

In the result the soldier was brought first to the Shemkir military hospital but then considering his critical state a military helicopter was sent from Baku, which carried Allahverdiyev to the reanimation department of the Central Military medical hospital of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan. Now the doctors are struggling to rescue the soldier. He is in a critical state. Doctors removed his spleen, his liver is half-dead in the result of shooting and the soldier is connected to the artificial respiration facility".

"It means that what spokesman for the Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroghlu says is a lie", said Uzeir Cafarov. "It is time to put an end to this shameful practice, which has become a fashion in the Defense Ministry. They consider that if a soldier is shot, it means that it should be registered as a case of suicide.

First of all, Allahverdiyev served for about 3-4 months. Here a question arises - how this young low-experienced soldier came to be on the military post, where he is said to shoot himself? I think the military prosecution will investigate this issue and I want the Defense Ministry to stop mocking at the public opinion and stop taking the side of responsible commanders and reject these inadmissible methods.

After being recruited soldiers are bound to undergo adaptation in the territory of the military unit. If such a conscript is sent to a post right away, it can easily breed undesired results. This is an example of that conscripts are sent to the posts and those who served half a year and more, do not go to the posts, which is a principal moment in the sense of the real combativeness of our army".

Hasan Allahverdiyev has no father and according to the expert initially his commanders wanted to register the case of attempted suicide due to his hard family state.

"But soldiers serve in harder circumstances and according to the logics of the Defense Ministry, they must all commit suicide. I would like to say that the unit, where Allahverdiyev serves, is one of the most complicated ones and it locates in the mountains.

I want to remind to Sabiroghlu that 2 months ago in the same Shemkir division in the area of the Khanlar region soldier Faik Sarkarov, recruited  from Khachmaz, shot Afig Tarlanov dead. At that time the Defense Ministry also attempted to present the case in a different context but then it became clear that the soldier was shot by his fellow-in-arms due to bullying. I can state numerous other similar examples.

Therefore, I would recommend to the Defense Ministry to try not to hurry with making conclusions or release any commanders from responsibility. Commanders must bear responsibility for all such tragedies. It is necessary to point to commander of the Shemkir unit, general Chingiz Shafiyev that he bears the direct responsibility for the repeated capturing of our soldiers by Armenians in his direction and for those soldiers who died "owing" to bullying.

I can not understand the position of the Defense Ministry which tries to justify its officials, though the victim is still in the reanimation department, he was not even questioned about how he was injured. The Defense Ministry state stubbornly that it happened due to the "weak will", while there are witnesses who saw that Allahverdiyev was shot by his junior commander, that they argued and the sergeant fired on the soldier. In the next 2-3 days we will learn whether Allahverdiyev will live or doctors will not manage to rescue him".

"Echo"