Thread by @Gargaristan

Thread on the tragic story of the Udi people of Northern Azerbaijan:

The Udi are a small minority of maybe 5,000 to 10,000 and are speaking a language related to Lezgian and are mostly adherents of the Armenian Apostoplic Church.
The latter is also where their problem starts. (1/8)

The main settlement of the Udi was called Vartashen, where about 3,000 Udi speakers lived in the 80s, along some Armenians and Jewish Tats.
However, with the escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh war - despite being far away - the Udi were cleansed from their homes. (2/8)

As Armenian Christians, the Udi were punished for a conflict they weren't involved in. Also, all Armenians were forced to flee. Today, only about fifty Udi remain in the town. (3/8)

Not only that, the Armenian name Vartashen (meaning rose village) was changed into Oğuz, after the powerful ancient Turkic tribal confederacy of central Asia.
There is no connection to this, the reason is just rampant nationalism. (4/8)

The Udi of Vartashen fled to Georgia, Armenia and Russia. In Georgia, there already is an Udi village called Zinobiani since the 1920s. The rest of the Udi communities is now scattered over several cities, except one other in Azerbaijan, which wasn't targeted. (5/8)

They live in Nij, a village of almost 6,000 inhabitants, which lies to the southeast of Vartashen.

The Udi language is listed as "severely endangered" by UNESCO and is affected by natural assimilation towards Azeri, as it is isolated. (6/8)

This isn't the only danger to the culture of the Udi though, as the authoritarian government of Azerbaijan also has a strictly nationalist line of policies and aims to eradicate non-Azeri minorities culturally. (7/8)

Another issue that is worsening their situation is that many of them have Armenian surnames, which is a dangerous thing to have in face of the current sentiment against Armenians in the Azeri population. (8/8)

And additionally some trivia:

The Udi language was predated by the Caucasian Albanian or Old Udi language, which might have been called "Gargarian" by medieval Armenian historians.