Hundreds of families flee enclave in cars, trucks and buses fearing persecution and ethnic cleansing from Azerbaijan
Armenian residents of the capital of the breakaway Azeri enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh today loaded their belongings onto buses and trucks as they left for Armenia.
Hundreds – or even thousands – of people, many with children and luggage, lined up to board buseswhile almost 3,000 have already arrived in Armenia, at the reception center set up by the government in Kornijor.
📸 The 1st group of #Artsakh refugees arrived in Syunik, Armine Simonyan from CivilNet’s Syunik team reports. The group of ~ 40ppl, families who lost their homes & made the decision to move to Armenia, passed through the checkpoint & registered at the humanitarian center pic.twitter.com/72ZS2Y8Mxz
— CIVILNET (@CivilNetTV) September 24, 2023
The leadership of 120,000 Armenianswho consider Karabakh as their homeland, told Reuters yesterday, Sunday, that they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and will leave for Armenia because they fear persecution and ethnic cleansing.
The Armenian leadership of the enclave, which belongs to Azerbaijan, announced today that all who wish to leave for Armenia, after last week’s Azeri military operation, will have the opportunity to do so.
The refugees are escorted safely to the Armenian border by Russia’s peacekeeping force in the region.
The Republic of Artsakh, as the Armenians call Nagorno-Karabakh, announced that there are traffic jams on the roads leading from Karabakh to Armenia.
A sea of vehicles is already forming on the highway to Kornidzor as hundreds — or likely thousands — of people flee Nagorno-Karabakh. https://t.co/aYYkl9AF7W pic.twitter.com/lbzTd8NB5D
— Gabriel Gavin (@GabrielCSGavin) September 25, 2023
The Armenian authorities of Karabakh announced that free fuel will be given to all who wish to depart.
Meanwhile, in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, the police announced that they arrested at least 142 people today during anti-government proteststhe Russian news agency TASS reported, citing a statement from the Armenian Interior Ministry.
Source :Skai
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