Azerbaijan issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh separatist leader Arayik Harutyunyan, the country's prosecutor general said Sunday.
Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but largely populated by ethnic Armenians, between May 2020 and last month, when the separatist government said it would dissolve itself by the end of the year after a three-decade bid for independence.
The arrest warrant announcement by Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev reflects Azerbaijan's intention to quickly and forcefully enforce its grip on the region following three decades of conflict with the separatist state. In a briefing Sunday, Armenia's presidential press secretary, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, said that 100,483 people had already arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, which had a population of about 120,000 before Azerbaijan's offensive.
Armenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said some people, including older adults, had died while on the road as they were "exhausted due to malnutrition, left without even taking medicine with them, and were on the road for more than 40 hours."
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