The details of the crime seem anything but heroic: a young lieutenant hacking a fellow soldier to death in his sleep, with an ax he had stealthily purchased hours before.
But for many people in the South Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan, the picture is not so simple.
Not when the assailant is an Azerbaijani whose hometown was brutally seized by Armenian forces while he was still a teenager.
Inspired by last month's Egyptian uprising, young activists in Azerbaijan were calling for antigovernment demonstrations today -- and using Facebook to spread the word.