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Violence Against or Obstruction of Health Care in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020

Relief Web
June 22 2021
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Analysis
Source
  • Insecurity Insight
Posted
22 Jun 2021
Originally published
22 Jun 2021
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Between 1 and 2 p.m. on October 28, 2020 an Azerbaijani unguided artillery rocket damaged the new maternity ward of the Republican Medical Center in Stepanakert, which had yet to open. In the attack, four stories of windows were blown out and pieces fell from the ceiling. The strike also damaged the adjacent medical center that was treating COVID-19 patients. Azerbaijani authorities denied responsibility and in turn accused Armenia of launching a rocket strike on Barda town that killed more than 20 civilians and wounded over 70. Armenia rejected these accusations.

OVERVIEW

The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 13 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2020. In these incidents health facilities were damaged and health workers killed and injured.

This factsheet is based on the dataset 2020 SHCC Health Care Nagorno-Karabakh Data, which is available on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).

Primary country
  • Armenia
Other country
  • Azerbaijan
Source
  • Insecurity Insight
Format
  • Analysis
Themes
  • Health
  • Protection and Human Rights
  • Safety and Security
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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