The evacuation of ethnic Armenians from the disputed enclave comes just days after Azerbaijan launched a rapid offensive to retake the territory.
, and by Sunday night, more than 1,000 people had crossed the border into Armenia, the government said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also facilitated the evacuation of 23 wounded patients from the region, the organizationBut leaders in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan, warned that the initial departures could quickly grow into a mass exodus from the enclave, amid fears among ethnic Armenian residents that they would face violence or persecution if they opted to stay.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday also called on Azerbaijan to “protect civilians and uphold its obligations to respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh,” according to a readout of his phone call with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.About 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region in the South Caucasus that has been a flash point for more than 30 years.
A cease fire was declared in 1994, leaving Armenia in control of the region, despite its location within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan. In the decades since, brief skirmishes flared along the border. But in 2020, another war erupted, and Azerbaijan recaptured parts of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The blockade and surprise attack “raise serious questions … about the goals and motives of the peacekeeping troops of the Russian Federation,” Pashinyan said in a
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