December 11, 2001 - 22:03 AMT
AZERBAIJAN'S ENERGY CRISES FRAUGHT WITH SOCIAL BURST
The energy crisis in Azerbaijan is beginning to turn into a catastrophe. The energy is already cut off in the capital. According to the Azerbaijani media, yesterday Baku was in pitch darkness for the whole evening and night. The situation in the regions is even worse. Energy has not been distributed to refugee camp "Gizil ay" in Bard for four day and 1200 people have already lived in inhuman conditions for 8 years there. In order to attract the government's attention the people living in the camp made an attempt to block the highway to Baku. "Namus" party chairman Togrul Ibragimli says that he "does not exclude the possibility of the social burst in any region of Azerbaijan". According to him, "repetition of the last year events in Sheki is possible. There were mass disorders having social ground in that region last year.