Special envoys to Voskepar
In the peaceful hamlet of Nerkintar, a stone's throw from the front line with Azerbaijan, the birds whistle the Armenian spring.
On her doorstep, Lilit Manoucharian firmly presses the silver cross around her neck.
In a few days, the dirt road that runs past his house could become the next border between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
“
I built this house eighteen years ago,
” laments the peasant woman, resigned to leaving to protect her daughter.
His farm, located below the village of Voskepar, in the Tavouch region in northwest Armenia, is part of a territory claimed by Azerbaijan and which the Armenian prime minister plans to cede.
Opposite her house, her cousin's house would remain on the Armenian side.
That of his uncle and neighbor, Artem Manoucharian, would pass to the Azerbaijani side.
The old man has lived there for thirty-two years.
“
We are at home here, we returned to these lands in…
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