About 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan will leave for Armenia after a crushing military defeat.
It’s the latest development in the conflict between the South Caucasus nations that has flared up into two major wars in recent times: the first in 1992 and the second in 2022.
In the latest conflict, which took place on September 19-20 this year, Azerbaijani forces launched an offensive to seize control of the breakaway territory of Artsakh. Azerbaijan has promised to protect the rights of Armenians, but Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and international experts fear ethnic cleansing will take place.
According to the Armenian government, by Sunday evening 377 “forcefully displaced persons” had crossed from Azerbaijan to Armenia. Azerbaijan said on Sunday it had switched the region’s main city, Stepanakert, to its own power grid as part of the “reintegration” effort. The CSTO members pledge to defend one another from outside attack. But, bogged down in its own war in Ukraine, Russia refused to come to Armenia’s assistance in the latest Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, arguing that Yerevan itself had recognised the disputed region as part of Azerbaijan.
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