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Los Angeles Times
December 25, 2010
Heydarov is also rumored to “have even been behind the assassination of Air Force Chief and Deputy Defense Minister General Rail Rzayev” in 2009, the cable says. The heirs to the Heydarov family political and business fiefdom are Kamaladdin Heydarov's London-educated sons: Nijat and TaleÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 29, 2010
... at a base in Seyfali, "even the trial was held behind closed doors." Safarov, whose parents say he was a victim of hazing, received a life sentence. In February, General Rail Rzayev, the commander of Azerbaijan's air force, was shot and killed near his home in Baku, in circumstances that remain unclear.
Telegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2009
General-Lieutenant Rail Rzayev was the most senior official to have been killed in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a country where Russia and the United States vie for influence, since the 1990s. It was not immediately clear whether the motives for the killing were political. "At approximately 8am. (0400 GMT) at theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2009
General-Lieutenant Rail Rzayev was the most senior official to have been killed in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a country where Russia and the United States vie for influence, since the 1990s. It was not immediately clear whether the motives for the killing were political. "At approximately 8am. (0400 GMT) at theÃâà...
