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  • The Shahumyan Residents Were Displaced 15 Years Ago

    THE SHAHUMYAN RESIDENTS WERE DISPLACED 15 YEARS AGO

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    [06:10 pm] 04 May, 2006

    A large-scale military operation "Koltso" was implemented in April -
    June, 1991, with the joint efforts of the USSR Interior Ministry and
    special-purpose groups of the Azeri Interior Ministry in order to
    evict Armenians from the Armenian villages Gatashen and Martunashen,
    the region Shahumyan and Karabakh. At the same time, Armenia and
    Nagorno - Karabakh appeared in economic blockade by Baku.

    According to the NKR Foreign Ministry data, the increase of the
    tension was determined by the above-mentioned "Koltso" operation as a
    result of which the Karabakh conflict was taken to a new - military
    level. According to the OSCE review, "the situation became more or
    less tense from April to June, 1991, when the Soviet army displaced
    Armenians from many rural areas of the region with the assistance of
    the Azeri Interior Ministry. This act was realized very severely."

    "Unfortunately, neither the operative nor the military crimes carried
    out within that period found their political and legal evaluation,
    and this resulted in new vandalism from the Azeri side - ethnic
    groups' evictions."

    "The tragedy of Getashen, Martunashen and Shahumyan still continues
    as the displaced Armenians haven't got a right to return and they
    haven't been compensated.

    These villages are left out in the reviews of international mediators
    and in projects of the Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement," this
    is a quotation from the NKR Foreign Ministry statement.

    By the way, there are many documents which testify to the fact that the
    Azeri authorities find that the Karabakh conflict settlement is closely
    connected with the residents' displacement or their annihilation.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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