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BAKU: Garabagh Armenians Face Deplorable Living Standards: Poll

GARABAGH ARMENIANS FACE DEPLORABLE LIVING STANDARDS: POLL

AzerNews Weekly
July 15 2009
Azerbaijan

Armenians living in Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh, an Azeri region under
Armenian occupation, are facing deplorable living standards, a recent
survey has found.

According to the study, surveying 1,250 people by the local Khankandi
Press Club with the financial aid of Friedrich Ebert Foundation,
63.2% of Garabagh Armenians consider their socio-economic conditions
unbearable. 71.4% of respondents admitted they would leave Upper
Garabagh as soon as the opportunity presents itself. 58% of those
polled explained their desire to migrate to earn a better living,
while 47.2% voiced a desire to leave because of social injustices that
prevail there, 16.3% due to the threat of a resumption of hostilities
between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and 8.7% for political reasons.

68.3% of respondents blamed the deplorable living conditions on the
former leader of the separatist regime, Arkadi Gukasian. However,
they acknowledged that the incumbent regime in Khankandi, the center
of the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic, is not pursuing a
proper policy either.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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