Azerbaijan: Army Officer Shot Dead By Armenian Sniper

Makes sense. Being very blunt, I could care less about Azerbaijan or its citizens. However, as the mother of a dead Karabakh soldier told me in the war museum in Stepanakert, despite the loss of her only son at the hands of Azeris, she wishes no ill to any Azeri mother. The amount of money spent on armament could build trust, cooperation and peace between all people.

Well said. Unfortunately throughout the history the Armenians have always been the victim. Persian, Arabs, Turks, Russians and many more. Once it tries not to be a victim anymore and wants to protect it's citizens from evil of hatred, it is blamed for aggression. Go figure out.

Its the grrreat super duper powers who profit from the status quo,its the israelis who sell 1.6 billions` worth of arms to the breakaway from Persia petrol station of Ilhamistan,its Ali Babaliev`s satrapy which uses the armenians as an excuse for its misrule over the native population.And you cant equate the suffering of the armenians with those of the azeris.Armenians are fighting for the lands they have been living on for more than 25 centuries with artificial western Kosovo type protectorates and you can never equate the mass murderer turks with their victims.The rest is just talking turkey.

This happened 2 days ago, when this officer was shot in between the line of contact. He was left to die by his comrades. NKR reported this the next morning and said they are not responsible for the death, but they were aware about the soldier that was wounded between the forces. Armenian Leadership asked why was he there? No response from any country. Now, Azeri's had over a piece to be posted on RFE/RL and here it is kids, the lies that Azeriesher buy and RFE sells. Where is the news that Armenia reported on this as it happened, but even The other Turks didn't, because of this.
To Anonymous, Armenians can't trust anyone, especially it's neighbors, because of the past track record of neighbors of killing us so they can steal our land thing and ohh that one small insignificant thing called genocide or as the turks name it DEPORTATIONS to what??? AFTERLIFE.

Who profits? The people in power, that's who. That's the only possible explanation for how this situation has endured for so long.

The question you posed in the end is worth some analysis. In reality the autocratic rulers of both countries share a mutual interest in preserving the seemingly deteriorating status quo. With guns pointed at each other, it becomes a great deal easier for the governments to dismiss opposition movements as betrayal of the motherland or otherwise redirect public attention from inner fundamental issues (such as human rights abuses and rule of law) towards short-term but emotional ones such as an imminent war by raising the temperature at the border. Making note of the intensive propaganda campaigns directed against the supposed enemy in both countries which often times results in irrational ridicule it is hard to imagine no state involvement or encouragement at the very least. Not only are the Armenian and Azeri elites not ready to give up such a powerful leverage for preservation of their power but quite the contrary, with a degree of certainty one can conclude they will do anything within their reach to maintain this weapon in their arsenal even if it means risking war by a misunderstanding or an accident.

This is already forum from Armenian perspective,
Only it is more ballanced, reducing rediculous claims of Urartu
"Empire from Sea to Sea" to the level of Russian "kruchkotvors".

25 Centuries ago Nagornyiy Karabah, Nahichevan', Iranian Azerbaijan, Area of Medes, Caspean Albania and Parts of Kahety and Kartly were united in South-East pre-Georgian Kingdom of Media, later Median CIS and Median lead United Nations.

Turkish Armenians (some 200,000) were brought by Russians as refugees about 180 years ago there, also to Tbilisi and some other parts of Georgia and Caucasus (along with Cossacks, Russians and Germans).

It happened after Georgians liberated (according to
aggreements between Georgian King and his nephew
Peter The Great) Turkish Armenia, Iranian Azerbaijan and Georgian provinces in Northen Turky (Turks and Iranians would rather have fully restored and friendly Georgia at their borders, than expanding Russian Empire) - but Russia returned it back, not withour treachery of Griboedov married to daughter of Georgian "Knyaz'", obsessed by envy for looking better
than him Georgians, and possibly hiding his possible extraction of descandent of Russian Zcarik-Rurik that lied to Shah of Horezm to invade with Million army and kill all Georgians - Shah lost and Zcarik-Rurik was captured, tried and executed.