On Nagorno-Karabach – Walter Mayr in Der Spiegel:

‘"I want the world to see through my eyes what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh," says Anna Khachatryan. That's why she is now sharing her story – that of her expulsion from her homeland.
The dark-haired woman, 36 years old, is sitting on the seventh floor of a hotel together with her husband, four children, grandmother and great-grandmother. She arrived here the day before, in the Armenian provincial town of Goris: the temporary end of a hasty escape from Nagorno-Karabakh, from the self-administered Armenian republic not recognized by the international community that is located in Azerbaijani territory.’

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‘On Thursday it was announced that Nagorno-Karabakh as an entity would be dissolved by the end of the year. There is nothing to suggest that residents will be able to return.
Anna was four when she arrived in what was then a Soviet autonomous region. The giant empire of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was on its last legs. In the struggle for a post-Soviet order, war had broken out between the South Caucasian republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, primarily over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.’

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‘"The road we used to drive into the war zone in 1991, to Nagorno-Karabakh, is the same one we used to flee to Armenia yesterday," says Anna Khachatryan. She sounds like she's watching a movie rewind to the beginning. Her life reads like the chronicle of a conflict that spun out of control.
Only months after Anna's birth, in August 1987, the Karabakh Armenians petitioned Gorbachev for the region to become part of Armenia. Wars followed, massacres perpetrated by both sides, a never-ending spiral of violence. And now? It appears as though the final battle for Nagorno-Karabakh was fought last Tuesday.’

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‘The rebel republic, known as "Artsakh" by Armenians, lost a third of its territory in the 2020 Azerbaijani advance - fighting that cost the lives of another 6,000 people in the battle for Nagorno-Karabakh. The cease-fire, negotiated by the Russians, resulted in Azerbaijani troops posted barely 10 kilometers from the Khachatryans' home.
A little over two years later, on December 12, 2022, the blockade of the Lachin Corridor began. The road leading to Armenia was a lifeline for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. Everything needed to endure in the hostile environment came from the Armenian motherland via that one road, the asphalt equivalent of an umbilical cord.
The emergency began when the Aliyev regime ordered the closure of the corridor. "We ran out of medications pretty quickly at the pharmacy, especially blood pressure-lowering drugs and blood thinners," Khachatryan says.’

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‘And Vladimir Putin? On September 12, the Kremlin chief uttered a sentence in Vladivostok that at first attracted little attention. He said that he hoped an early solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem would be smooth – if possible "without ethnic cleansing."
A week later, the first bullets struck Stepanakert, and the bulk of the Armenians fled.
Anna Khachatryan says she was at home alone when Azerbaijan's "anti-terrorist operation" began on Tuesday, September 19. She says her husband was with the troops, two of her children were in daycare and the other two at school. At 12:50 p.m., the first heavy explosions shook Stepanakert.’

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‘During the Soviet times, there were no fixed borders between the republics here, just maps showing the outlines of individual municipalities. That went well for decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, he says, "but then, almost three decades later, the Azerbaijanis came up with Google Maps and suddenly said: This and that are ours now." The Armenians, by now dramatically outnumbered militarily, couldn't defend themselves.
Not in Aravus and not elsewhere. The Azerbaijani military apparatus, fed by billions of dollars in oil and gas, including money from Western sources, is slowly eating its way into Armenian territory. Between 150 and 215 square kilometers of territory, depending on estimates and the type of satellite imagery analyzed, are believed to have been secretly occupied by Baku's forces since 2020.’

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‘For years, the corridor has been part of the arsenal of demands with which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Azerbaijani ally Ilham Aliyev have been pressuring the small Caucasus republic of Armenia. The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan and, especially, Turkey, which borders it, would thus gain direct access to Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and further to the republics of Central Asia.
Erdoğan would come closer to his self-image as a beacon of light in the Turkic-speaking world; Armenia, on the other hand, would be sliced into pieces and ultimately exposed to ridicule as a "failed state," says Poghosyan.’

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‘"We want to stay in Armenia with the children, we don't have another home anymore," she says. "We will start over again in Yerevan – we'll earn money and rent a house."
"And," she says, pausing for a moment: "live."’

Read the article here.

If possible, without ethnic cleansing. If not possible, then with ethnic cleansing.

By the way, Israel is an important exporter of weapons to Azerbaijan. See here.

The disappearance of Nagorno-Karbach went almost unnoticed.

Some people on the Balkan (Serbia-Kosovo) and elsewhere will have paid close attention.