Posted on 09/25/2023 7:53:53 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel
Thousands of people have fled from a disputed Azerbaijani territory to neighbouring Armenia amid fears that they may face ethnic cleansing.
Nearly 6,700 people arrived in Armenia after leaving the Nagorno-Karabakh region, internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, in the two days since the Armenian government began accepting refugees on Sunday.
Armenia's prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, said that the country has plans to look after up to 40,000 refugees, but said he expects up to 120,000 people to leave the region due to the 'danger of ethnic cleansing', raising serious concerns over whether Armenia will be able to cope with the influx of people.
Refugees have been fleeing the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which has been fought over for three decades, after Azbaijan's government launched a lightning-fast military campaign on September 19 that forced separatists in the region to lay down their arms.
The major military move saw at least 200 people die and more than 400 wounded after Azerbaijan began an 'anti-terrorist' campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian region that has been at the heart of conflict in the region for generations.
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Good post and I love Thomas Sowell - he’s a must read for everybody who considers themselves amateur historians.
Let’s start with Armenia being an historically Christian nation in the Muslim “Middle East” at the cross roads of the Caucasus Region which has a long bloody history of ethnic genocide going back before Alexander the Great even touched the area.
That area is really a convergence of dynasties, empires, and kingdoms. Most people have never heard of Tigranes the Great. He’s a good one to research and backpedal from there on how much war has been constant in that area.
One word: Jihad.
Lots of people of Armenian descent around the FR HQ (mostly farmers, lots of raisins). All the ones I met are great people including my HS algebra teacher/pilot Mr. Turoonjian (RIP)...gave me my 1st GA aircraft ride to take HS campus aerial photos for the yearbook. Also worked with a local TV news anchor of Armenian descent for 25 years, great lady.
The U.S. is concerned with a takeover of “sovereign” Ukrainian territory, but is actually helping Azerbaijan (Turkey “satellite”)(Cold War/Middle East base excuse) while they attack Nagorno-Karabakh with it’s ethnic Armenians. Sad hypocrisy:
https://time.com/6316001/us-failures-nagorno-karabakh/
“I’ve lost track. Where do the US neocons want regime change? Armenia or Azerbaijan? Or both?”
The Neocons are making a move on Armenia so that they can use them as the next Ukraine, in other words, to be a NATO base against Russia.
The problem, though, with this stunt for Armenia is that Iran isn’t too hot on the idea and so Armenia may find itself being ‘liberated’ by its neighbor, just as Ukraine is in the process of being liberated.
I grew up in an area with many Armenians………great people .
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I’d say that word is more like “Kardashians”.
There are more Azeris in Iran than in Azerbaijan. They are the same religion as the Iranians (but their language is Turkic and not related to Iranian). But I see in the news that there have been border conflicts between Iran and Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a part of Armenia surrounded by Azerbaijan. Now there are worries conflict will spead to Nakhchivan, a part of Azerbaijan cut off from.the rest of the country and bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey. Plenty of opportunities for conflict.
The US will support Muslim extermination of Christians every time. That’s it’s history. Then we have the black on white genocide in South Africa, not a peep from the US. At least Russia has set up an area to immigrate the farmers out, what sane country doesn’t want a productive populace? South Africa and the US apparently.
Years ago, I had Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of my MI ‘research area’ on the former “...Stans” after the dissolution of the USSR. R.W.C. is quite correct, this problem is historically religious in nature and it does go back to after Armenia became Christian and rejected/fought against the later Muslims who attempted to conquer the country and erase the Christians. And in that area of the world, as well as the Balkans, ethnic and religious hatreds born a thousand plus years ago, are still being fought out.
Think of it as never ending “wars of revenge” for past disputes.
This is not so much about anti-Armenianism and more about years of violent separatism by Armenian nationalists in a region of Azerbaijan. It’s the same as if ethnic Mexicans in South Texas formed their own militias and waged violence against the US army for a seperate state.
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