However a seemingly voluntary movement of roughly a hundred thousand people did take place earlier this year - 2023 - from #artsakh / #NagornoKarabakh westwards. So it is not impossible under some circumstances. Not at all sure how wise it will turn out to be for #israel and its supporters to put it back on the agenda. Moving up to two hundred thousand settlers out of the West Bank in order to render a two state solution viable is worth talking about. in this context.
"We talked about #Azerbaijan hosting #COP29 next year, the global #climate conference, and why it might be a problem for a petro-dictatorship to host a climate conference. We discussed how Azerbaijan is trying to greenwash its recent #genocide of the #Armenians of #Artsakh/ #NagornoKarabakh by claiming the area, devoid of its human population, has now achieved net-zero (yes, we're not joking)."
It is strange and disturbing to see so many posts on social media that deny it's a war crime to stage a surprise attack on civilians (including murders, kidnappings, and rapes) or to starve out a civilian population (by cutting off electricity, food, and water).
These are both obviously war crimes and should be discussed as such.
#NagornoKarabakh is, from Azerbaijan's perspective, playing straight into the military hawk fantasy: strike fast, strike hard, and force of arms can solve intractable political problems.
It never ends that quickly and cleanly. Hell, it's usually not even possible to lie hard enough to claim a victory.
But now there is this one exception – and it is going to come up in strategy arguments for a hundred years.
Tens of thousands died fighting for & against it, destroying the careers of 2 presidents — 1 Armenian, 1 Azerbaijani — & tormenting a generation of #American, #Russian & #European diplomats pushing stillborn #peace plans. It outlasted 6 US presidents.
But the self-declared state… of #NagornoKarabakh — recognized by no other country — vanished so quickly last wk that its ethnic Armenian pop had only mins to pack before abandoning their homes… driven by fears of #EthnicCleansing by… #Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenians are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh by the thousands after last week's lightning-fast capture of that enclave. They are dismissing guarantees for their safety by Azerbaijan's president, in part because of a long history of bloodshed and ethnic cleansing by both sides.
Are we witnessing the final act in a decades-old conflict, or the start of a new chapter of hardship and strife?
10 months of blockade and starvation, then a brutal military attack, and now forced exile from their homelands... & the official line is "they leave by choice".
a mass exodus. many Armenian families in #Artsakh have lived on the lands for centuries.
Armenia's Prime Minister signals a foreign policy shift away from Russia.
Nikol Pashinyan addressed the nation on Sunday saying his current foreign security alliances were 'ineffective', after Moscow refused to intervene in the latest conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenians find themselves pushed aside yet again out of fear to upset a fragile equilibrium in Central Asia.
From Washington to Brussels, Moscow to Beijing, seemingly no one wants to fall out with energy-rich Azerbaijan.
Even now, as Armenia has turned to the world for help, accusing Baku of attempted ethnic cleansing in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh — the land-locked and long-contested Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
I had lived in Bosnia, where memory of Srebrenica is still fresh and painful.
Watching what is happening in #NagornoKarabakh today is chilling to the bone to me.
Apparently people are being moved to the Stepanakert airport. It is not clear how Azerbaijani forces will define "civilian population" vs. "separatists".
Five or ten years from now we will start hearing about mass graves there of #Armenian men and boys over 15, and we will be asking ourselves "how did no-one see that coming."