Residents search for their belongings at a restaurant hit by a shelling during the military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh, in the town of Barda, #Azerbaijan.
Mourning the death of Anar Isakli, a 23-year-old soldier in the Azerbaijani Army. The conflict has killed thousands of troops and more than 100 civilian.
Local residents gather in the basement of a building used as a bomb shelter during a military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh in Stepanakert/Khankendi October 7.
An Azerbaijani woman is seen in a secondary school gym, where she has been settled after fleeing Terter during the military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh, in the town of Barda, #Azerbaijan, October 9.
Bahtiyar Elnur, 5, who was injured during a blast, plays with his sister Sehla, during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the city of #Ganja, #Azerbaijan October 11, 2020.
A local resident stands in front of his damaged home hit by artillery fire during the fighting over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh in the city of Terter, #Azerbaijan, October 6.
Civilians gather in the basement of a building used as a bomb shelter during a military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh in Stepanakert/Khankendi, October 5.
A shop is seen on fire following recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh in Stepanakert/Khankendi, October 3.
An Azerbaijani child sleeps in a secondary school shelter, where she is settled with her family after fleeing Terter, in the town of Barda, #Azerbaijan, October 9.
Mourners attend a memorial service before the funeral of the 7 years old Aysu Iskenderova, who was killed by recent shelling in the course of a military conflict over the breakaway region of #NagornoKarabakh, Garayusifli/Barda, October 28, 2020.
“Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it,” Pashinyan said during his speech in Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. The prime minister also repeatedly led the crowd in chants of “miatsum,” or “unification,” the nationalist slogan...
“I, as the Defense Minister of #Armenia, say that the option of return of ‘territories for peace’ will no longer exist, and I have re-formulated it into ”new territories in the event of a new war,” announced Tonoyan..."
Definition - A child associated with an armed force or armed group refers to any person below 18 years of age who is, or who has been, recruited or used by an armed force or armed group in any capacity (Paris Principles on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict) - @UNICEF
Using child soldier for military purposes must be avoided.
The All-Girl Soldier Club: Child Warriors of Donetsk
Excerpts from the article: Similarly, Armenia not only occupied a sixth of Azerbaijan’s territory in the war in the early 1990s but evicted 700,000 occupants of these lands. #Azerbaijan#Armenia - foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/rus…
But Armenia is subject to no sanctions whatsoever, mainly because Yerevan hides behind the fiction that it is not really a party to the conflict at all but that the “Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh” is.
There are two key reasons the United States should pay more attention to this problem. First, the fiction of proxies has directly caused greater instability in areas important to U.S. national interests. And second, they effectively serve to make conflict resolution impossible.