The flood of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh dwindled to a trickle Saturday as Armenia said nearly the entire population of the breakaway territory had already fled since Azerbaijan seized back control.
An AFP journalist at the Kornidzor crossing into Armenia saw only several ambulances arrive as border guards said they were waiting for a final few buses.
Armenia said Saturday that over 100,000 people from an estimated population of 120,000 had fled since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat. Yerevan has accused Azerbaijan of conducting a campaign of"ethnic cleansing" to clear Nagorno-Karabakh of its Armenian population.
Armenia has asked the UN's highest court to take urgent measures to protect the enclave's inhabitants, the court announced on Friday. The separatists agreed on Thursday to dissolve their government and become a formal part of Azerbaijan by the end of the year. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan -- a status it has enjoyed since first being handed to Baku by Moscow in the 1920s.
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