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Students burned Armenian and Swiss flags in center of Baku

27 February 2006 [12:23] - TODAY.AZ
About 100 Azerbaijani and Turkish students studying in Azerbaijan held a peaceful action on 14th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy in Nizami Street today.

As the APA correspondent reports from the place of incident, the students carrying flags of Azerbaijan and Turkey and photos of the former president Heydar Aliyev advanced slogans on the Khojaly genocide, "Freedom for Karabakh", "Freedom for Ramil Safarov" and etc.

The students burned flags of Armenia and Switzerland during the action. The action continued in spite of police's interference. The students singing the national anthems of Azerbaijan and Turkey visited the Alley of Martyrs at the end of the action.

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