By empty (7/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 10,000 opposition members, many dressed in orange, demonstrated Sunday in the centre of Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku to call for fair parliamentary elections in November. Participants at the rally, organised by the opposition Azadlyg (Freedom) Bloc, shouted: \"freedom\" and called on President Ilham Aliyev to ensure that the November 6 poll is free. Many wore orange clothing, a symbol inspired by last year\'s \"orange revolution\" that brought pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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