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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.
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