Why it’s time for cool heads in the Caucasus
Yasar Yakis
December 20, 2020 16:40
Relatives of the victims of the war over Karabakh, gather for a memorial ceremony, at the Yerablur Military Memorial Cemetery in Yerevan, on December 19, 2020. (AFP)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin brokered a truce between Azerbaijan and Armenia last month after fierce fighting for 44 days that claimed the lives of about 5,600 civilians and troops on both sides.
No sooner was the cease-fire signed than quarrels started to break out in the former battlefields. The agreement was too general and did not elaborate on the subtleties, which are now surfacing slowly.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Dozens of Armenian soldiers captured in raid
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image captionAzerbaijan says it carried out an anti-terror operation in an area recaptured during the war (file pic)
Armenians have protested after reports that as many as 100 soldiers were seized by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh.
They were captured weeks after a war in which at least 5,000 servicemen died and Azerbaijan made territorial gains.
Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but is under Armenian control.
The recent conflict was brought to an end by a Russian-mediated peace deal, but clashes have broken out again.
As part of the agreement, Armenia handed three areas over to Azerbaijan and the flare-up took pace in one of them, a southern area of Karabakh.