Armenian Refugees Flee Azerbaijani Takeover

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72419794 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="none">Under a military blockade since</span> <a href= "https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/europe/us-envoy-support-nagorno-karabakh-intl/index.html"> <span data-contrast="none">December of last year</span></a><span data-contrast="none">, Armenian residents of the Nagorno-Karabakh region have been deprived of food, fuel, and medicine by neighboring Azerbaijan. After an Azerbaijani military offensive</span> <a href= "https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/25/europe/nagorno-karabakh-ethnic-armenians-evacuation-intl/index.html"> <span data-contrast="none">killed 200</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">and the provisional government of Nagorno-Karabakh disarmed, the exit route to neighboring Armenia was clogged with 28,000 refugees trying to escape. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Azerbaijani officials have long threatened Armenians with veiled threats of violence that watchdogs warn</span> <a href= "https://www.civilnet.am/en/news/699536/ilham-aliyevs-anti-armenian-rhetoric-and-its-genocidal-undertones/"> <span data-contrast="none">are genocidal</span></a><span data-contrast="none">. Armenia is the world’s</span> <a href= "https://www.breakpoint.org/the-christians-who-are-rebuilding-armenia/"> <span data-contrast="none">oldest Christian nation. </span></a><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Azerbaijan</span> <a href= "https://culturalpropertynews.org/caucasus-heritage-watch-azerbaijan-destroys-armenian-heritage/"> <span data-contrast="none">has shown</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">a commitment not only to kicking Armenians out of a land they have lived on for thousands of years, but also to</span> <a href= "https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/09/report-shows-near-total-erasure-armenian-heritage-sites"> <span data-contrast="none">erasing all evidence</span