Exactly 1 year ago (September 27, 2023) 100,617 Armenian Men, Women and Children (99% of the population) were forced to flee their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh overnight when the Azeris captured the region and took complete control.
Azerbaijan and Armenia do not
have Diplomatic Ties, share a 600 mile border and have fight several Wars with
each other since the 1980s: The first Nagorno-Karabakh War from 1988-1994, the Second
Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 and the 2023 Campaign.
There were also Anti-Armenian Pogroms
in Azerbaijan (in Sumgait in 1988, in Shusha in 1988, in Kirovabad in 1988, in
Baku in 1990, etc.) which forced Armenians, who had lived there for thousands
of years, out of Azerbaijan and either moved to Armenia or to Nagorno-Karabakh.
From 2022 until September 2023
Azerbaijan had a complete blockade over Nagorno-Karabakh. No food, medicine or
people could enter or leave.
In September 2023 the Azeris
easily took over Nagorno-Karabakh (with its population starving.)
(An Armenian Family fleeing
Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023)
The Capitol of Stepanakert (Armenian:
Ստեփանակերտ) was renamed Xankəndi in Azeri and Azerbaijan quickly worked to erase
Centuries of Armenian and Christian Culture with Azeri and Muslim Culture.
The Azeris stopped every single
Armenian Man, Woman and Child fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin
Corridor into Armenia. They harassed them, took people away, stole their
things, etc.
The 1,920 Russian Peacekeepers in
Nagorno-Karabakh did nothing as the Azeris carried out their Repression (similar
to what Russia is currently doing in Ukraine.)
Until September 2023, there was
an Armenian Christian presence in Nagorno-Karabakh since the 7th
Century and there are many Ancient Christian Churches and Monasteries there –
most of which have been or are being destroyed or ruined by the Azeris.
This was Ethnic Genocide in its
purest form and yet hardly anyone called it out back then (I did.)
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