Armenians fear new war with Azerbaijan despite talk of peace - BBC News

Ethnic Armenians who lost their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh worry Azerbaijan plans another war.

10 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsNagorno-Karabakh conflictImage caption, Nina and her family left their home in Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani troops moved in in September 2023By Grigor Atanesian & Tim WhewellBBC World ServiceWhen more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh last September, Nina Shahverdyan and her brother, parents and cousin spent 30 hours on the road trying to leave.

"People died of heart attacks. People died because they were just too old to live through that pain. Children were crying," she remembers.

In a matter of days Azerbaijan's military regained all the lands it had lost in a war triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

What worries Armenians now is that their neighbour wants more, even if Azerbaijan's president talks of being close "as never before" to a peace deal.

They have heard Ilham Aliyev speak before of Armenia being "Western Azerbaijan" and see it as a sign of imminent invasion.

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