SOUTHERN ARMENIA – While the world focuses on Israel’s war against Hamas, an ongoing conflict threatens a tiny Christian nation at the intersection of Europe and Asia. Armenia is facing a potential genocide at the hands of its militant neighbor, Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan’s army is five times larger than Armenia’s. With backing from Turkey, Azerbaijan moved in October to take over the Nagorno-Karabach district, a disputed exclave of 1,700 square miles that has been inhabited by Armenians for millennia.
After a brutal war over that territory in 2020, a ceasefire was brokered by Russia, who sent peacekeepers to enforce the terms of the deal. Now, as Russia’s war against Ukraine takes a heavy toll, Azerbaijan seized the region in a brutal 3-day campaign and drove out more than 120,000 Armenians.
Armenian survivor Gita recalled, “I was in my father’s village when the attack took place. The first explosions were in the village. All of us were shocked, we did not know what to do.”
Jacob Pursley, a businessman in Armenia, said, “Unfortunately, the news cycle has ignored most of what’s happened of this ethnic cleansing that started on September 19th of this year.”
“A bomb fell on our neighbor’s house and we heard their cry
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