Ramil Safarov
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Ramil Safarov is a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani Army. In February of 2004, while attending a NATO Partnership for Peace program, Safarov was arrested by Hungarian police for the murder of Armenian fellow participant Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian.
Markarian had been hacked to death with an axe and a knife while he slept. A Budapest policeman commented that the murder had been conducted "with unusual cruelty," adding: "beside a number of knife wounds on his chest, the victim's head was practically severed from his body." [1] (http://www.geocities.com/master8885/Forces/NATO.html) Safarov admitted to the murder in March.
Azerbaijani officials later countered that Markarian had "repeatedly insulted" Safarov, and that the Azeri lieutenant may have acted in revenge for having lost relatives and being displaced during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Safarov is currently on trial for the murder in Hungary.Template:Military-bio-stub