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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenia, Azerbaijan trade blame for border clashes

Dec 9 2021

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded blame for border clashes in which officials say at least one soldier has been killed and two others have been wounded amid simmering tensions between the ex-Soviet neighbors. Armenia’s military said Thursday that two of its troops were wounded after Azerbaijani forces opened fire on Armenian positions. Azerbaijan meanwhile said Armenian forces killed one of its soldiers in what it called “a provocation.” Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a decades-old dispute over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Fierce fighting that erupted in September 2020 ended six weeks later with a Russia-brokered peace deal. Tensions escalated again last month.


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