Armenia is ready to take them in, following a defeat at the hands of Azerbaijan in a conflict dating to the fall of the Soviet Union. Azerbaijan says it will guarantee their rights, but the Armenians say they fear repression.
  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    3•1 year ago

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    Ninety-nine point nine percent prefer to leave our historic lands," David Babayan, an adviser to Samvel Shahramanyan, the president of the self-styled Republic of Artsakh, told Reuters.

    The Armenian leaders of Karabakh said in a statement that all those made homeless by the Azerbaijani military operation and wanting to leave would be escorted to Armenia by Russian peacekeepers.

    Babayan said it was unclear when the population would move down the Lachin corridor which links the territory to Armenia, where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has faced calls to resign for failing to save Karabakh.

    A mass exodus could change the delicate balance of power in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of ethnicities crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran are jostling for influence.

    President Ilham Aliyev 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” as part of Azerbaijan.

    With 2,000 peacekeepers in the region, Russia said that under the terms of the ceasefire six armoured vehicles, more than 800 small arms, anti-tank weapons and portable air defence systems, as well as 22,000 ammunition rounds had been handed in by Saturday.

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      • @JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        Ok but for real, what do you want them to do? Fight? Western media would tear them to pieces about battling an important NATO ally and would align the plight of Baku to that of Kiev, with “Russian ally” Armenia holding part of its legitimate territory through Russian forces… not to mention they would be obliterated.

        The weight of peace was in the UN… and nobody gave a fuck about Armenia in fears of provoking Turkey, Russia included.

        This is not a time for funny quips about Russia being bad. This is just fucking sad as we are watching another mass ethnic cleansing or Armenians in just a bit over a century… fuck.

        Edit:

        Downvote me to oblivion if you have to. You are all using a tragedy of great magnitute to take cheap shots at Russia. Yes, fuck Russia for Ukraine, and also good on them at being worse at war than they tought. However, here, they did nothing unusual: nothing.

        No peacekeepers ever fight UN detachments or Netherlands, France, Italy etc all had the same experience. They are there to secure some kind of a peace as agreed by both sides. As soon as one side breaches peace, they are next to powerless to stop it.