Word: kalashnikovs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task was not helped by the fact that the local authorities have been taking sides, supplying both Azerbaijanis and Armenians with weapons like pistols and Kalashnikov assault rifles. "The police say the weapons were stolen from them, but actually they handed the guns over," says Kupreyev. "There are more than enough supplies from Iran too. There have been reports that as many as 40,000 people crossed into Iran in a mass exodus ((on New Year's Eve)). The information is unconfirmed, but there certainly must be some truth in the reports that many people left ((towns all along...