[HCDX] RFE/RL Listeners In Azerbaijan Angry Over Closure Of Azadliq

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

 RFE/RL Listeners In Azerbaijan Angry Over Closure Of Azadliq
http://www.rferl.org/articleprintview/1365897.html
"They shut you down, but it's too late. I already know what liberty is, and that 
liberty is possible. Thank you for that."

That's what one listener wrote to Radio Azadliq [Liberty], the Azerbaijani 
service of RFE/RL, after the government ordered the closure of all foreign 
broadcasters in the country: BBC, Voice of America, and Radio Azadliq.

Rauf Mirkadirov, an analyst who writes for the newspaper "Zerkalo," echoed 
the listener's comments. "Radio Azadliq´s error is obvious. It makes people 
think," Mirkadirov writes. "If people think, they suffer, because they 
understand that the truth is not what the pro-government media shows: [a 
picture of] a country with economic growth and stability. They understand 
how bad the situation really is."

Radio Azadliq started receiving messages of support on October 31 when 
Nushiravan Maharramli, the head of the National Television and Radio 
Council, announced the plan to stop foreign broadcasts on national 
frequencies.

The messages are still arriving. Radio Azadliq´s offices in Baku and Prague 
received thousands of phone calls, mobile text messages, and emails, while 
independent and opposition newspapers published commentaries regretting 
the government´s decision.

"I don´t understand this decision, and I don´t want to understand it," wrote 
Vagif Samedoglu, a prominent writer and member of parliament. "They 
should not forget that these radio stations helped us, made our voices heard 
in the world in our bad days.... Especially Radio Azadliq."

"Everyone would listen to Azadliq, from taxi drivers to housewives. This was 
enough to shut down the station. Where else you would hear alternative 
voices?" Mammad Suleymanov wrote in an opinion piece in "Bizim Yol."

Alternative voices are still being heard through Radio Azadliq -- but fewer 
people are able to hear them. Azadliq is still able to broadcast on shortwave 
frequencies, and shopkeepers say the demand for radios that receive 
shortwave has skyrocketed in past days. Others tune in on Azadliq's 
website, where they can hear not only current broadcasts but also older 
ones from the archive.

Most listeners, however, express grave concern not only about the fate of 
their favorite radio station, but about what the development means for 
Azerbaijan.

"Radio Azadliq would always inform us about different views. Now alternative 
information will be available only at funerals and mosques -- from the 
mullahs. These are only places where you don´t get arrested for listening to 
something other than the government´s propaganda," said Elshan Poladli. 
Poladli is an activist of the Dalga youth movement, and has been arrested 
several times for organizing public protests against corruption, oil pollution, 
and restrictions on freedom of expression.

In his commentary, Suleymanov writes that "the restrictions placed on 
Azadliq will end up with bringing freedom to the people, because their 
unexpressed anger will build up and explode."

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