"I wish I would go blind and not see what happened": 29 years passed since the Operation Ring
In April - August 1991 Azerbaijan’s Special Purpose Police Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan (OMON) along with the Soviet Internal Security Forces (ISF) and army divisions organized and perpetrated a large-scale military operation named “Ring” (“Koltso”) deporting thousands from the Armenian villages located both in Artsakh and Armenia. The operation was carried out by a special scheme; Armenian villages were being surrounded by Soviet ISF and army divisions respectively, after which the OMON forces were breaking...