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...million and a half of their people in 1915 by the Turks. In 1988 an earthquake killed 25,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. At about the same time, Armenia became embroiled in an undeclared war with neighboring Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting has claimed 2,500 lives so far, and no settlement is in sight. On both sides the dispute has fired the same kind of atavistic enmity that is tearing apart other former Soviet republics and the Balkans...
...Levon Ter-Petrosyan, elected when the republic declared independence from Moscow in 1991, for the economic collapse. Many agree with engineer Arthur Verdian that "a government whose people are starving does not have the moral right to rule." Others believe it is time to find a compromise over Nagorno-Karabakh. "We have to stop this war by any means," says Armen Arutunian, a doctor. "The world community should intervene. There already have been too many victims, so many losses." Antigovernment demonstrations are on the rise, but the President has little room to maneuver. A militantly nationalist opposition, supported...
Battling for Nagorno-Karabakh...
...horrendous scale. Secessions often have touched off savage neighbor-vs.- neighbor wars, like those in Moldova; in Georgia, where South Ossetians have been fighting to break away and join ethnic brethren across the border in Russia; and of course in Yugoslavia and in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent on aid from richer nations for survival. At a recent international conference French President Francois Mitterrand worried out loud "whether in the future every tribal...
Shaposhnikov's fears may be exaggerated, but the utter failure of the C.I.S. to mediate even a temporary cease-fire in Karabakh suggests that the Commonwealth may go the way of its Soviet predecessor. Five of the 11 leaders invited to the most recent C.I.S. summit meeting failed even to show, and the leading Azeri presidential candidate last week declared his intention to withdraw Azerbaijan from the Commonwealth entirely...