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They are there.
Through
the cracked window above her kitchen sink, Marine points to the hill above her farm.
In the distance, we can make out silhouettes and the shadows of what appear to be vehicles: Azerbaijani army guns, in fact.
The same people who, a month ago, launched 15 shells on this peaceful Armenian mountain town of 400 souls.
The isolated village of Vaghatur is located north of the city of Goris, the last major city before the road that leads to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh for the Armenians, who in 1991 proclaimed the independence of this landlocked region in 1921 on the orders of Stalin in Turkish-speaking Muslim Azerbaijan).
Crossed by a trickle of water which pretends to be a stream, it is built in a narrow valley, on the mountainside.
On the track that climbs up to the town hall, dogs, chickens and pigs trot in search of food.
A succession of stone houses, a garden of beehives, stables.
The closer we get to the top...
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