Armenia and Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday they had started fixing their border, as part of normalisation efforts between the arch foes that had been locked in a decades-long territorial conflict.
Armenia said two soldiers were killed by Azerbaijani forces along the countries' heavily fortified border, marking the first fatal incident since talks began last year on a deal to end the 30-year-long conflict between the two nations.
The Caucasus neighbors have long fought over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan reclaimed after a lightning offensive against Armenian separatists in September.
While the horrors committed by Hamas in Israel are tragic, there’s yet another genocide occuring under our noses. In Azerbaijan, there’s a liquidation going on of the Armenian people. They happen to make up the first Christian nation on earth. “It’s just getting precious little play, and more people.
More than three quarters of the 120,000-strong population of the ethnic Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh had fled by Friday afternoon after defeat by Azerbaijan.