This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict

all across the world. Popular Front is

completely independent. Today we're speaking to journalist Erasmus Canbeck. He's

going to be talking to us about Atzac or or Nagorno-Karabakh, whatever you want to call it.

The formerly Armenian enclave between Armenia and Azerbaijan, it was ethnically cleansed by the Azerbaijani government and now there are only 8 Armenians living there

Many of the historic churches have been destroyed by the Azeris bad situation

Rasmus is going to be telling us how even the Azerbaijani Red Crescent harmed Armenians by disallowing

aid into the region when it was under full blockade. Support us at patreon.com slash Popular Front.

Before we go into this report that you've been working on, which is very extensive, really

amazing work, I was really interested to see it.

But before we go into that, I think maybe if you can can just give us a little recap of what

happened in Artsak or Karabak recently because unfortunately did not receive

the attention it probably should have yeah I mean I mean it's been going on for quite many years but after 2020 or in 2020

the as a bajani side attack Nagorno-Karabakh.

Until then it was a self-declared republic formally within the territories of Azerbaijan,

but it has been disputed and been the cause of peace

negotiations since 1990s but in the 2020 war the Azerbaiperjani side they won a decisive victory and after what was it for the four days

the there was a agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia to have a peacekeeping,

to have Russian peacekeeping forces in parts of the

on the court of Kerebak, the remaining parts

that the Armenians they were controlling.

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