A report on the Azerbaijanis displaced from the areas now under control by Armenian forces. A generation after the war, parents are trying to make sure their children maintain the same devotion to that land that they do:
Last year, there was a brief moment of optimism that serious peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan might be possible, as the two sides issued a promise to “prepare the populations for peace”:
There did briefly appear to be some fruit from the attempts to “prepare the populations for peace,” with a small retreat from both sides on the contentious wars over the historical narratives of the conflict:
A few months later, though, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Karabakh and announced that “Karabakh is Armenia – period!” To Azerbaijanis, that was the last nail in the coffin of the peace process.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s government has been increasingly casting doubt on Armenians’ own historical claim to the current territory of Armenia, by claiming that the area is “really” historically Turkic:
Even as relations deteriorated, there was a notable first last year: journalists from Armenia and Karabakh visited Azerbaijan, and vice versa. It could have gone worse:
Improbably, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan held a public debate on their conflict earlier this year in Munich. It couldn’t have gone much worse:
Following the July fighting, there was an unprecedented level of interethnic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis around the world, from Moscow to Los Angeles: