This site reflects the situation as of August, 2023, when launched. After a nine-month comprehensive blockade of Artsakh and an incessant campaign of intimidation by Azerbaijan, on September 19, 2023 Azerbaijan’s armed forces launched an assault on Artsakh from all sides and employed the entire military arsenal at their disposal. Exhausted from a long siege and deprived of any external assistance, Artsakh fell. Over a hundred thousand-strong ethnic Armenian population, still inhabiting on their ancestral lands after around fifty thousand had left earlier as a consequence of a bloody war in 2020, had to flee in a few days. They left behind their homes and offices, government and commercial buildings, graveyards, places of worship, monuments and all belongings. Since the beginning of October 2023, for the first time in millennia-old history, no Armenians live in the Armenian land of Artsakh. |