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| 120,000 ethnic Armenians start leaving Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 2023-09-26 |
| [Dawn] The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have decided to leave for Armenia because they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region said on Sunday. Armenia’s prime minister said the Karabakh Armenians were likely to leave the region, and that Armenia was ready to take them in, following a defeat last week at the hands of Azerbaijan in a conflict dating from the fall of the Soviet Union. The Armenians of Karabakh — a territory internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but previously beyond Baku’s control — were forced to declare a ceasefire on Sept 20 after a lightning 24-hour military operation by the much larger Azerbaijani military. |
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