Azerbaijan’s offensive triggered one of the biggest movements of people in the South Caucasus.
More than 28,000 of the 120,000 Armenians of Karabakh reportedly crossed the border into Armenia.
A military victory by Azerbaijan over the enclave, which was previously beyond Baku’s control, a week ago has triggered one of the biggest movements of people in the South Caucasus since the fall of the Soviet Union. “I would not want anybody to see what I have seen,” she added, reflecting on the shootings, hunger, turmoil, and suffering she witnessed before escaping to Armenia.
Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev said that the rights of Armenians will be respected but said his “iron fist” had consigned the idea of an independent ethnic Armenian Karabakh to history and that the region would be turned into a “paradise.” The badly injured were evacuated by helicopter to Armenia as the roads out were so jammed with traffic that a journey of just 77km to the border was taking at least 30 hours.
The US, home to the second largest Armenian diaspora in the world after Russia, sent senior officials to Armenia to show their support.
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