This article comes from Figaro Magazine
To the east of the runway of the small Kapan airport, southern Armenia, Syunik region, the slopes rise rapidly towards the dark sky. The mountains fell under the control of Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani flags are not flying on the ridges this evening because it is raining.
“When they slam, it’s torture,”
says Mr. Haroutiounian, sub-prefect of the region. Six months ago, in September 2023, Azeri troops, heated by thirty years of state discourse, seized Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh for Armenians) and
cleaned
it , in the words of President Aliev.
This small fertile plateau, Armenian for two millennia, was landlocked in Azeri territory, at the end of a century of Soviet tampering and recent border conflicts. For the first time in history, the continuity of the presence of Armenians on the land of Artsakh was broken. Continuity is the affiliation of bodies to a ground.
“That a little time is enough to change something”
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