Robert wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:06 am
Here is a response to the persecuted Christians.
No one is much talking about Armenians in Azerbaijan for a variety of reasons.
First, the extent to which the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh amounts to genocide is highly debatable. The fact that Armenians living in Azerbaijan don't want to live under Azerbaijani rule doesn't mean genocide is happening.
But more importantly, the whole Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was a proxy Russian imperial project to begin with just like what they are trying to do in the Donbass and in other ethnic enclaves like Transdniestria in Moldova. During the 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Armenians backed by Russia managed to take control of that part of Azerbaijan by force and expelled about 725,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis from that region.
During the intervening 30 years, Azerbaijan strengthened its military and Russia chose to immolate its military in Ukraine such that by 2023 when Azerbaijan decided to reclaim jurisdiction over its legitimate and internationally-recognized territory of Nagorno-Karabakh the Russians were in no position to intervene. And no one else in the world was interested in stepping in to prop up one of Russia's little imperialistic projects.