One man was hoping to find his son, another was looking for his father.
In a long, cold vigil at Armenia's border with Azerbaijan on Thursday, a small group of Armenian men stood waiting for relatives they hoped would find a way home after the latest violent twist in decades of conflict between the two countries., a breakaway region where ethnic Armenians had enjoyed de facto independence since a war in the early 1990s. Within 24 hours, the Karabakh Armenians were forced to agree to surrender and disarm.
Petrosyan declined to name him, or say whether he had fought in Karabakh's military, for fear of endangering the young man. They spent the time drinking coffee, arguing with Armenian border guards who refused to allow them to go any further, and voicing fears for the fate of their relatives. But distrust runs high on both sides, given the turbulent history between them and the tens of thousands killed in the past 35 years.
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