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Yerevan Letter: Long-running dispute came to a sudden halt when a two-day military offensive by Azeri forces overran local defences
GORIS, Armenia — Arem Grigoryan spent his early 20s serving in the Soviet army from 1989 to 1991. But those years spent working in Moscow left him with no lasting affinity for the Russian peacekeepers who he says are to blame for failing to prevent Azerbaijan’s takeover of his homeland of Nagorno-Karabakh. “Right in front of the peacekeepers’ eyes, the Azeris attacked a peaceful population, and they just stood by,” he said, smoking a cigarette on the porch of Hotel Goris — one of the many hotels in southern Armenia’s Syunik province that have become filled with ethnic Armenians...
Fearing ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan’s army, some refugees fear they may never return.