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November 16, 2020

Armenian Villages Burn Their Homes as They Withdraw from Nagorno-Karabakh
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In the southern Caucasus Mountains, thousands of ethnic Armenians have
set their homes on fire as they began a mass exodus from the disputed
territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, making way for Azerbaijani forces to take
control of the region. The civilian withdrawal began as Russian
peacekeepers arrived to oversee the transfer of power in
Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, the victor of a war with Armenia that
broke out on September 27. It was the worst fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, when conflict
killed some 20,000 people and displaced a million others - most of them
Azeris.


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