Next protest rally of IDPs

Baku / 12.06.18 / Turan: On June 12 a large group of internally displaced persons (IDP) held a protest action in front of the presidential administration. They demanded payment of their salary, which the state paid them until January 2017, or provide them with work. The protesters were received in the presidential administration. At the same time, security workers in civilian clothes forbade the participants of the action to shoot what was happening and to transfer materials to the press.

Before that, on June 5, the IDPs had already carried out such an action before the Cabinet, which caused a serious reaction in the society and discontent of the authorities. However, the force was not used against the protesters.

One of the participants of today's action Aynur Mammadova told Turan by phone that representatives of the State Committee for Refugees promised to provide her with work last year, but they were deceived. "I was not given any work, nor provided a return to native places. This deception has been going on for 25 years," she said. On June 5, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmedov promised the forced migrants, but again nothing happened, Mammadova noted.

"We live in poverty, there is no earnings, almost all of us are elderly people. The government should restore the payment of our salaries at the last place of work. Where the revenues from oil come, let them give us a little," she noted. It should be noted that until January 2017, the government paid a salary to 7,000 state employees who lived in seven occupied areas around Nagorno-Karabakh. -03B-