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...over the unspoiled mountains and fertile valleys of Karabakh is a blood feud with roots that reach deep into the history of the region. In 1915, during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians living in Turkish Armenia were deported into the deserts of what is now Syria. At least 1 million people of Armenian descent were either killed or died of starvation, though modern Turkey disputes that figure as exaggerated. Azeris are ethnic cousins of the Turks, and in Karabakh today some Armenian soldiers claim they are continuing the historic battle. "For the Azeris, the only solution...
While the details are disputed, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened in the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly two weeks ago. So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis, many of them mutilated, have been transported out of the town tucked inside the Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh for burial in neighboring Azerbaijan. The total number of dead -- the Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians were slaughtered, most of them women and children -- is unknown. But the facile explanation offered by the attacking Armenians, who insist that no innocents were deliberately killed, is hardly convincing...
...Irano-Turkish Ambiance of Medieval Armenian Poetry: A Case-Study of Erznka--S. Peter Cowe, professor, Columbia University. Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue...
From a safe haven across the Armenian border in the town of Idzhevan, Gamsakhurdia wasted no time in lashing out against the Military Council, blaming criminals, bandits and a communist "Mafia" for his defeat. The Armenians have not offered Gamsakhurdia political asylum, but they also have not pressured him to leave the republic. It is clearly a ticklish diplomatic problem. If Gamsakhurdia attempts to go abroad, Georgia's current leaders say they will press for his extradition to stand trial on criminal charges. But as long as the deposed President remains so close to home, he will continue...
...also had its victims: scores were killed in the crackdowns in Tbilisi, Baku, Vilnius and Riga, and three young men were martyred in the August coup. But large- scale outbreaks of violence have been fairly isolated everywhere except in the ethnic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. By and large, the Soviet Union has given up the ghost of the totalitarian idea with remarkably little bloodshed...