Azerbaijan has said its military measures in Nagorno-Karabakh are continuing for a second day, having launched what it calls “anti-terror” operations in the enclave.

It says it will not stop until Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians surrender.

Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway region, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago.

    • @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      That’s literally what they openly mean, I’d also argue that EU, US etc representatives understand this very well, and now 4 days after your comment there’s no news from villages cut off by Azeris (naturally they’ve cut off communication too), there are also rumors of mass murders of civilians caught there with rape, dismemberment and all the traditional Azeri stuff, followed by disposal of corpses by burning them.

      Of course Azeris like to spread false rumors to demoralize Armenians, but there’s one problem - these rumors come from very different sources (some activists, some social media accounts, some pro-Russian bootlickers, some people of the opposite views) and do not contradict each other, rather intersect. There’s no evidence yet, but the evidence which went viral in previous years was apparently deliberately let out by Azeri government, judging by its timing being very advantageous for them, and also video quality. So they may simply not let out anything if they think they may be punished.

      Though at this point I don’t think they’d be punished if they’d just kill everyone in NK on camera and officially admit that.