in Armenia, refugees mourn their previous lives

In Goris (Armenia), bells toll the death knell for Nagorno-Karabakh. This self-proclaimed Republic in 1991 may be definitively lost on Monday October 2, after a new war against Azerbaijan. Naira left the enclave a week earlier with seven members of her family. She was a pediatrician there. “There is no possibility of returning (…) coexistence is impossible, so we will stay here”she confides.

“Give us back our homeland”

“It’s an immense pain to have left everything there, my husband’s grave is there, at the time, we thought only of saving the living and fleeing”, testifies Sveta, a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh. On the roads, convoys of vehicles disperse across Armenia. The vast majority of refugees have not found a solution for rehousing. “We have to start everything from scratch, we are ready for anything but give us back our homeland”asks Armida, refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh