Today was a difficult day having to face and feel the pain of displaced people; facing the pain of a nation under a constant threat of a conflict to erupt. And it appears that there is no solution in sight, there is a constant fragility of the implemented ceasefire and a possible war that could instantly erupt and could spread into even western Europe. And the world’s apathy to the situation is incomprehensible.

The people of Azerbaijan are peace-loving; their neighbor Armenia is not.

On the districts territories, boarding Armenia, of which are either occupied or affected by the Armenian armed forces

In the 19 th century, the Karabakh Khanate ended and in the 1980s it was known to be the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), a province, with Shusha as its major historic center. In 192, upon the order of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union ruler, this small NKAO province was established in the larger Karabakh region. Stalin’s goal was to create an Armenian majority-ruled region within Azerbaijan as part of his empire’s divide and rule policy. There, with this action, the foundation of the current conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia was laid and continues to linger.

As a result of politically-motivated ethnic cleansing, that during 1988-1992 was conducted by Armenia, over 1 million Azerbaijanis, who were historically living in those places, were forcefully expelled from their land and homes were displaced and were settled in Azerbaijan. M ap-Nagorno-Karabakh-Azer



Starting in 1988, the Armenian armed forces began to forcefully deporting Azerbaijanis, living in 126 communities in the Nagorno-Karabakh district aka

Khanate

. On May 8, 1992, the