Azeri Police Break Up Demonstration Against Military Violence
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Thousands of Azeris demonstrated in the capital, Baku, in a rally organized through Facebook Inc. to protest non-combat deaths in the armed forces.
Riot police used water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in the central Fountains Square. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Stop killings in the army” and “Stop turning the army into a morgue.” Almost 100 were detained in the unauthorized protest, according to the opposition daily newspaper Yeni Musavat