AZERI STUDENT AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA
THREATENS ARMENIANS
08-06-2004 19:05:00 | USA | Articles and Analyses
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
Just when Armenians were recovering from the shocking
murder of an Armenian officer who was hacked to death by an
Azeri classmate in a NATO Partnership for Peace program (how
ironic?) in Budapest, Hungary on February 19, an Azeri in
Bulgaria makes vicious and racist threats against Armenians.
Rauf Zeynalov, an Azeri student at the American University in
Bulgaria (AUBG), sent on April 30th a very vicious and obscene
hate mail to Karen Vrtanesyan, the web master of
www.armenianhouse.org, in response to an article condemning the
murder by Ramil Safarov of an Armenian officer in Hungary. In
order to spare our readers' sensibilities, I have deleted the
crude four-letter words used by Zeynalov in the following
e-mail: "Bitch, I have seen ur (sic) some inventions (sic) in
the armenianhouse.org forum for Ramil Safarov. I wanna (sic) say
that Ramil - [expletive deleted] that bitch armenian (sic) guy
in Hungary and belive (sic) me that we, all azeris (sic) will -
[expletive deleted] ur (sic) and all armenians (sic) mom.
Actually, it was ur (sic) mom who was shouting last night in the
bed of one of azeris (sic). And me (sic) - [expletive deleted]
ur (sic) sister :::::::::)))))))) (sic). She was really cool :)
(sic). With the wish of - [expletive deleted] all armenians
(sic). By the way we are not gays, so for sure we will -
[expletive deleted] girls and women coming to u (sic), u (sic)
will be - [expletive deleted] in other ways :) - [expletive
deleted] u (sic) !!!"
Vrtanesyan informed the officials of the American
University in Bulgaria on May 17 about the hate mail sent by one
of their students, Rauf Zeynalov, using the university's e-mail
system. Vrtanesyan sent to the University a copy of Zeynalov's
obscene and threatening e-mail.
David C. Durst, the Interim Chief Academic Officer at the
American University in Bulgaria, immediately responded to
Vrtanesyan by saying: "I have received your letter. This is a
serious allegation and I have opened an investigation of the
case."
Four days later, on May 21, Durst sent the following e-mail
to Vrtanesyan: "I write to inform you of the action the AUBG
Administration has taken in response to the serious threats and
offensive language the AUBG student Rauf Zeynalov used in
violation of AUBG's written rules governing the use of e-mail on
campus. Rauf Zeynalov will not be attending the university
during the fall semester, and before he will be allowed to
return to AUBG he will be required to convince the University
Administration to its satisfaction that he understands the
severity of his misguided action and that he will maintain
respect for and work cooperatively with others of different
backgrounds and opinions upon return to the University."
Karen Vrtanesyan should be commended for bringing the
offensive e-mail of this Azeri hate monger to the immediate
attention of the American University in Bulgaria. David Durst
and the officials of AUBG should also be commended for their
prompt action.
Readers should write to David Durst ([email protected])
suggesting that the Azeri student should be expelled from the
University rather than being suspended just for one semester.
Letters should also be sent to the Soros Foundation's Open
Society Institute in Bulgaria ([email protected]) urging them to
rescind the scholarship they had awarded to Rauf Zeynalov for
the full cost of his educational expenses towards a Bachelor
Degree at the American University in Bulgaria.