{"id":101,"date":"2020-10-07T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlsorgs3stg.wpenginepowered.com\/alsa\/?p=101"},"modified":"2020-10-07T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:15:45","slug":"whats-happening-between-armenia-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/alsa\/2020\/10\/07\/whats-happening-between-armenia-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Happening Between Armenia & Azerbaijan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Download the Fact Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

I. WHAT’S HAPPENING BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing below comes from Armenian sources or opinion articles.<\/em><\/p>\n

1) Azerbaijan unilaterally launched a massive attack on the Armenian-populated Republic of Artsakh.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Armenia has nothing to gain through conflict, and all signs indicate that this escalation began when Azerbaijan unilaterally attacked. Read this analysis from Thomas De Waal, the foremost third-party scholar on the conflict. https:\/\/perma.cc\/PE33-GAVN<\/a><\/p>\n

In the words of the Brookings Institution\u2019s Pavel Baev, Azerbaijan \u201ctim[ed] the offensive to minimize attention\u201d and \u201chas been preparing for a new war, meticulously investing plenty of its petro-revenues into equipping its armed forces with modern weapons.\u201d https:\/\/perma.cc\/9KT5-EZBP<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Azerbaijan has an overwhelming military advantage.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Azerbaijan spends six times more than Armenia on its military and enjoys massive air and artillery superiority. https:\/\/perma.cc\/PUX6-ET54<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Azerbaijan is bolstered by thousands of Syrian fighters deployed by Turkey.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026a reality so indisputable that it\u2019s corroborated by both CNN (<\/u>https:\/\/perma.cc\/JB3X-Y6TB<\/a>) <\/u>and Fox News (https:\/\/perma.cc\/RM6K-55LX<\/a>)<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Many of these fighters are coerced and exploited. <\/strong>https:\/\/perma.cc\/BS4E-DWS4<\/a><\/p>\n

4) Azerbaijan continues to systematically shell civilian targets of no military significance.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The city of Stepanakert (population 60,000, in a valley far from the front line) is suffering from ongoing and indiscriminate artillery attacks. <\/strong>https:\/\/perma.cc\/34JL-FX6D<\/a><\/p>\n

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II. SHOULD ARMENIANS OR AZERBAIJANIS CONTROL NAGORNO KARABAKH (ARTSAKH)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Artsakh\u2019s population is overwhelmingly Armenian and has been since reliable records were first kept.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a report prepared for the U.S. Army by the Federal Research Division, as of 1924,<\/p>\n

94.4 percent Nagorno Karabakh\u2019s population was Armenian. According to the same report, this proportion has never since declined below 76%. https:\/\/perma.cc\/KPK3-B6QZ<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Artsakh has legitimately expressed its desire for independence. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn December 10, 1991, a Karabakh referendum chose independence,\u201d from the Soviet Union. Artsakh \u201cofficially declared independence on January 6, 1992.\u201d (Congressional Research Service). This is the same way Azerbaijan itself established independence. https:\/\/perma.cc\/M8F2-739R<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Azerbaijan’s record of killing Armenians under its administration and destroying Armenian heritage within its territory demonstrates that the Armenians of Artsakh can never be subjected to Baku\u2019s control.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 1988 and 1990, the Azerbaijani public committed gruesome pogroms against their Armenian neighbors. https:\/\/perma.cc\/8VRV-9UHS<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2005, an Azerbaijani (Ramil Safarov) used an axe to murder his sleeping Armenian classmate at a training academy in Hungary.\u00a0 Safarov returned to Azerbaijan in 2012, where he was welcomed with a military promotion, adoring crowds, a free apartment, and a special pension. https:\/\/perma.cc\/6D2U-W4HX\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2016, Azerbaijan briefly captured an Armenian-populated village in Artsakh, torturing and executing the elderly residents who remained. https:\/\/perma.cc\/7LXU-C8DZ<\/a><\/p>\n

In Nakhichevan\u2014a historically Armenian province under Azerbaijani control\u2014authorities have deliberately destroyed thousands of UNESCO-protected Armenian monuments and at least 89 churches. https:\/\/perma.cc\/T42M-4U6G<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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