In the new age of dictators, large and small, not many things are off the table
Muslim Azerbaijan has the upper hand over its neighbour, Christian Armenia, after decades of tit-for-tat violence and cycles of conflict that have seen both sides commit atrocities.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe , which had worked for nearly three decades to end the conflict, was cast out at Moscow’s behest and with it, the possibility of a referendum for Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Laurence Broers, a Eurasia expert at London’s Chatham House, says in defence of Azerbaijan that “not many countries would willingly have an armed separatist group in territory that is recognised internationally as their own”.
On 19 September, he sent in the army to end any armed Armenia resistance. The fighting is all but over.
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