19 Feb in 20:52 RFE/RL
After the Second Karabakh conflict ended, dozens of Azerbaijani servicemen and internally displaced persons died or were wounded as a result of a mine explosion. Most of the civilian victims tried to see with their own eyes what was left of their cities and villages in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. The area remains closed to civilians until the clearance of unexploded ordnance is completed.
RFE/RL informs that Shakir Hajiyev was in his 30s when war forced him to flee his village, southeast of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the early 1990s. The arrival of ethnic Armenian forces in Asagi Seyidhamadli, in Azerbaijan s Fuzuli district, cost Hajiyev his home and his job with the local government. For more than a quarter of a century, he was one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Azerbaijanis who dreamed of someday returning to their homes in the seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by Armenian forces. Last autumn, when an Azerbaijani military of
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Shakir Haciyev was in his 30s when war forced him to flee his village, southeast of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the early 1990s.
The arrival of ethnic Armenian forces in Asagi Seyidahmadli, in Azerbaijan s Fuzuli district, cost Haciyev his home and his job with the local government.
For more than a quarter of a century, he was one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Azerbaijanis who dreamed of someday returning to their homes in the seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by Armenian forces.
Last autumn, when an Azerbaijani military offensive recaptured the war-ravaged territory where Haciyev s village once stood, he was on the verge of seeing his dream fulfilled.
24 Dec 2020 in 18:15 Eurasianet
A Russian sapper unit prepares to deploy to Nagorno-Karabakh
Following the war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the 1990s, deminers spent decades and tens of millions of dollars clearing the former battleground of land mines and unexploded ordnance. Now, after 44 days of renewed fighting, they have to start again, American expert on the security problems of the South Caucasus Joshua Kucera writes in the article
According to a survey of local media reports, at least 11 people have been killed by leftover explosives following the cessation of hostilities on November 10. In the deadliest single incident, four members of an Azerbaijani family who were visiting their former home in the region of Fuzuli were killed when their car hit a land mine on November 28, the Azerbaijani general prosecutor’s office reported.
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