TERTER (Azerbaijan), Oct 13 — Armenian and Azerbaijani forces engaged in new fighting today over the Nagorno-Karabakh region despite pleas to observe a ceasefire, as the Red Cross warned hundreds of thousands were already affected by the conflict. More than two weeks of fighting between the...
Sappers walk past an unexploded rocket after recent shelling during the military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on the outskirts of Stepanakert October 12, 2020. — Reuters pic
The Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, overwhelmingly populated by Armenians, has been controlled by Armenians since a 1990s war that erupted as the Soviet Union fell. “Civilians are dying or suffering life-changing injuries,” said International Committee of the Red Cross Eurasia regional director Martin Schuepp in a statement.He said hundreds of thousands of people across the region were affected, with healthcare services coming under strain and even attacked in some cases.The Nagorno-Karabakh separatist authorities accused Azerbaijan of launching an offensive in the south, north and northeast of the region.
The daily fighting has made a mockery of the ceasefire agreed between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in the early hours of Saturday in Moscow after 11 hours of talks. Gela Vasadze, an analyst with Tbilisi-based think tank the Georgian Strategic Analysis Centre, said the current conflict was doing nothing to end the stalemate.
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