The Nagorno-Karabakh war

Witness History

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🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In April 1993, the Azerbaijani town of Kalbajar fell to ethnic Armenian separatists during the war over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photojournalist Khalid Asgarov tells Louise Hidalgo how he and his father were among a column of refugees who fled to safety on a two-day trek over the mountains.

Picture: A refugee woman from Kalbajar comforts two of her children after escaping over the mountains in Azerbaijan, 10th April 1993. (Credit: Dima Korotayev/AFP/Getty Images)

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1:11.1	I'm Louis Adaggo and today I'm taking you back to spring 1993 and one of the
1:16.0	most bitter conflicts in the former Soviet Union over the small mountainous enclave of
1:20.8	Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan which owned it and the enclave's ethnic Armenian
1:25.8	majority. By the spring of 1993, thousands had already died or been forced to flee.
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