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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Azeri forces capture six Armenian soldiers

Yahoo! News – Australian Associated Press
, 10:30 pm·

"The situation is tense and explosive," Armenian interim Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, alleging Azerbaijan seized the troops on Armenian soil.

But the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said the six Armenians had tried to cross the border towards the Kalbajar area in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Kalbajar was handed over to Azerbaijan after last year's conflict between the two ex-Soviet republics.

More than 6000 people died in the fighting between September and November 2020.

Russia brokered a ceasefire but there is international concern the conflict could escalate again.

Recently, large-scale military manoeuvres by Azerbaijan caused a stir, with Armenia accusing its neighbour of border violations which officials in Baku rejected.

Pashinyan has proposed that both countries withdraw troops from the border and that international observers are stationed there instead.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS