Armenians were queuing to flee Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, after Azerbaijan defeated its breakaway government, fearing possible ethnic cleansing.
Armenians fled the long-contested Nagorno-Karabakh region after Azerbaijan defeated its armed forces.Armenia relies on Russia for security, while Azerbaijan has close ties to Turkey, and the change in control of Karabakh alters the balance of power in the South Caucasus.
Refugees who reached Armenia told Reuters they believed the history of their breakaway state was finished. A still from footage taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on 25 September 2023, showing Russian peacekeepers helping to evacuate refugees from Stepanakert. They were to attend a ceremony for a pipeline that will bring gas to Nakhchivan and inaugurate a newly modernised military installation in the exclave, Turkey said.
The Armenians of Karabakh said Russia, the West and Armenia itself had abandoned them, and some spoke through tears of the end of an era for the Karabakh Armenians. From 1988-1994 about 30 000 people were killed and more than a million people, mostly ethnic Azeris, displaced as the Armenians threw off nominal Azerbaijani control in what is now known as the First Karabakh War.
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