Somewhere around the morning it seemed to me that the light was switched on, as I was sleeping with my face turned to the wall. Suddenly I heard a strange muffled noise, around two or three times. Then, without thinking of something bad, I turned round; being still half asleep I opened my eyes, and only then understood what had happened. By Gugo's bedside I saw the Azerbaijani classmate with a long-handled axe in his hands. I got up from my bed and in Hungarian, no, in English, said to him: 'Stop it! What are you doing?' When I saw that my roommate was lying on his back and his head and neck were bleeding, while he was wheezing as if he was short of air (those were very low sounds) I was simply shocked. I understood that I could not help any longer, but I had to stop the further events so I went downstairs and called for help. I knew that I could not help my friend any more.
The investigator showed Safarov's photograph. I explained that it was not the person I attended the course with, but it was the person who was standing with an axe in his hand in my room and was stabbing my friend.
When I shouted at that person, he turned to me and said (or I understood it from his gesture) that he had no problems with me and even after that he made two or more blows, after what he left the room, and I left after him. He left with such an expression on his face as if he had completed something important well enough. I went to look for help, and he turned right to the corridor, while I turned left. I didn't know where he planned to go.
I did not notice any strain in the relationship between Gurgen and Azeri, Gurgen didn't mention about it either.

(from the testitmony of Gurgen’s Hungarian roommate, Kuti Balazs. Read the entire testimony at http://budapest.sumgait.info/kuti-balazs-account.htm).