BREAKING AWAY FROM A BLOODY PAST

The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 30, 2013 Tuesday

Tourists visiting the Grandmother And Grandfather monument outside the
city of Stepanakert in the Armenian-controlled Azerbaijani region of
Nagorny Karabakh on June 26. A growing number of foreign tourists are
heading to the breakaway territory – which is not recognised by any
state – and say they are seeing a different side to its war-scarred
image. Wandering around the region’s largest town, Stepanakert, as
part of a tour group of people from places such as Italy and Taiwan,
French pharmacist Jordan Nahoum said that while he knew all about
Nagorny Karabakh’s bloody past, he was surprised by what he found.