More than half of the population of Nagorno Karabakh has already fled to Armenia

More than half of the population of Nagorno Karabakh, an Azerbaijani territory populated by Armenians, has already left their homes since Sunday and moved to Armenia after the Azeri military operation on the 19th, as reported this Thursday by the Yerevan Government. .

“65,036 forcibly displaced people from Nagorno Karabakh have arrived in Armenia,” said Nazeli Baghdasarián, spokesperson for the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinián, on his Facebook social network account.

The UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, said this Wednesday that images of Armenians fleeing the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave “for fear of identity violence” are “alarming.”

In a statement read at the daily UN press briefing, Wairimu reiterated his “deep concern” about the situation in this Caucasus region.

The advisor did not explicitly mention Azerbaijan, which has taken control of the enclave, although the exodus of the Armenians is due to fear of the measures that the Azeris may take against them.