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Refugee Gabrieljan (back, 3rd from right) with family: starting from scratch
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Nazik Armenakyan / DER SPIEGEL
Nune Gabrieljan was at home again recently, in Nagorno-Karabakh.
She wanted to check on the house and pick pomegranates in the garden for her grandchildren.
From Goris in Armenia, where she fled to, she drove back to Martakert in Nagorno-Karabakh by car.
But she had to turn around.
Drones circled in the sky, "as if a flock of ravens were flying over us," says the 49-year-old.
The street was shot at.
The truce that had been announced for Nagorno-Karabakh - "it doesn't exist," she says.
For almost three weeks, the Caucasus states of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been waging a war that is ultra-modern and ancient at the same time.
The weapons used are ultra-modern.
Drones discover the positions of the enemy, destroy them and film the whole thing so that the world can watch.
Old is the subject of the dispute.
It is about the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is on Azerbaijani territory, but is predominantly populated by Armenians.
Almost three decades ago it broke away from Azerbaijan in a war.
As the Republic of Artsakh, which is not recognized internationally, it is in fact an appendage of Armenia.
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