{"id":9144,"date":"2023-09-25T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/thousands-of-ethnic-armenians-flee-nagorno-karabakh-after-breakaway-regions-defeat\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:54:23","slug":"thousands-of-ethnic-armenians-flee-nagorno-karabakh-after-breakaway-regions-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/thousands-of-ethnic-armenians-flee-nagorno-karabakh-after-breakaway-regions-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh after breakaway region\u2019s defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The first refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, days after Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive and said it had taken back full control of the breakaway region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Around 4,850 people had arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh by midday Monday, according to a statement from the Armenian government quoted by state news outlet Armenpress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Azerbaijan\u2019s brief but bloody offensive last week killed more than 200 people and injured many more, before Karabakh officials agreed to a Russia-brokered ceasefire in which they agreed to dissolve their armed forces. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Baku had restored its sovereignty over the enclave \u201cwith an iron fist.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Azerbaijan has insisted that ethnic Armenians who choose to remain in Nagorno-Karabakh will have to apply for Azerbaijani citizenship.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Karabakh presidency told Reuters that the majority of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in the enclave did not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and that they would leave for Armenia because they feared persecution and ethnic cleansing.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"graphic\">\n<div class=\"graphic__anchor\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Images shared on social media showed residents of Stepanakert, the region\u2019s capital, packing their belongings into cars and vans, and searching for gas. The region had been blockaded by Azerbaijan-backed activists for nine months, causing chronic shortages of food, medicine and fuel.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Most of those fleeing Karabakh were women, children and the elderly, the deputy mayor of the Armenian town of Goris, Irina Yolyan, told Armenpress Monday. Goris lies close to the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, near the Lachin corridor \u2013 the only road connecting the enclave to Armenia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Armenian government said it was providing accommodation to all those who did not have a place to stay, according to Armenpress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Refugees who reached Armenia told Reuters they believed the history of their breakaway state was finished.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cNo one is going back \u2013 that\u2019s it,\u201d Anna Agopyan, who reached Goris, a border town in Armenia, told the agency. \u201cThe topic of Karabakh is over now for good I think.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, days after Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive and said it had taken back full control of the breakaway region. Around 4,850 people had arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh by midday Monday, according to a statement from the Armenian government quoted by state news outlet Armenpress. 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