191. Life and Death Behind the Karabakh Blockade
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Today we speak to Nina, an Armenian teacher living behind Azerbaijan's blockade on Artsakh / Karabakh. Children are now dying due to the blockade and the international community is largely silent. We hear first hand what life is like as Azerbaijan effectively starves people out of their homes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:08.9 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. In this episode we are speaking to Nina. She is a |
| 0:17.7 | teacher and resident of Artsak or Nogono Karabak, the contested region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |
| 0:27.6 | For over eight months now Azerbaijan has blocked the only road in and out. As a result of that people are dying |
| 0:35.2 | including children and pregnant women. Even aid workers are being arrested and |
| 0:40.4 | spirited away to Baku in Azerbaijan. |
| 0:44.0 | Things are looking very bad. |
| 0:46.0 | So we spoke to a resident there to find out what life is like currently behind the blockade. |
| 0:51.0 | Support us at Patreon.com slash Popular Front. |
| 0:55.0 | A lot of people are unaware unfortunately about the blockade right now. |
| 1:10.0 | Can you first explain to us what this blockade is like how it started and just you know |
| 1:18.0 | give us an idea of how long this has been going on now? |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah so the blockade in Arza or Nagorno-Karbo, as it is called internationally. |
| 1:25.6 | It has started in December the 12th, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 1:30.1 | And since then, for already eight months months Azerbaijan has tried to make the lives of people who live here |
| 1:38.9 | just a disaster. It all first started as an activist trying to solve some environmental issues on the road, |
| 1:50.0 | closing the road, which is just a nonsense because as it turned out later there were no |
| 1:56.6 | eco activists there there were like some people from Azerbaijani army or people who work for the army and they were just there wearing civilian clothes and |
| 2:07.4 | pretending that they are fighting for environmental rights and that's how they first block the road but after that in May they also |
| 2:17.6 | installed military checkpoints and after that again, exactly almost one month ago, they closed the road totally and didn't and haven't let any humanitarian aid anything possible to enter Artsach. |
| 2:38.9 | Right, so initially it was kind of fake activists right so the Azeris were saying oh yeah we're we're closing this road down due to |
| 2:49.7 | eco-environmentalist issues and then I know I remember seeing footage where later on they were |
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