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Azerbaijan & Turkey Will Continue Ethnic Cleansing Against Armenians
If you knew that 30 years ago your relatives were massacred, would you remain in your home if the same people who massacred your relatives came to power in your land for which you voted for independence in 1989 (but the “international community” did not recognize it), or would you flee to somewhere safe?
You would flee to somewhere safe. Because of Azerbaijan’s oil wealth, your vote for independence in 1989 was not recognized, despite the international community recognizing the right of Bangladesh, Kosovo, East Timor & South Sudan to vote for independence.
Sure, you put up a good fight for democracy, self-determination and freedom for thirty years. But the massacring conquerors bought new foreign technology (drones), and luckily earned billions of dollars from oil on their land, so you are now out of luck. They massacred your relatives 30 years ago, and now they are coming to control the land your family has lived on for thousands of years.
This is why the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) fled their homes to…