President signs "dissolution" decree of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh
- President Samvel Shahramanyan has signed the dissolution of all State institutions one week after Azerbaijan’s attack on the small Armenian country in the Caucasus. From January 2024 Nagorno Karabakh will therefore not exist. Half of the population has already fled, fearing the repression of the Azerbaijanis.
After suffering total military failure in 24 hours, the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh announced last week their dissolution, but political representatives have had a period of one week to negotiate the dissolution of the country itself. Caravan President Samvel Shahramanyan signed the decree on Thursday.
The decree that is disseminated via Facebook states that all state entities and associations dependent on Nagorno Karabakh must be dissolved before 1 January 2024. "The republic of Nagorno Karabakh ceases to exist," it holds as its title. According to Shahramanyan, they have made a decision "for the difficult political-military situation".
The Azerbaijani attack killed dozens of people on 19 September, and many saw it as the last war between the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis three years ago. On this occasion, Azerbaijan recovered two-thirds of the territory of Nagorny Karabakh, lost by another war in the 1990s.
Every war and every attack has the same consequence for the losers of the relay, on one side and the other: death and exodus. The Armenians know that. We have also known the atrocities of Azerbaijani soldiers during the 2020 war.
Every war and every attack has the same consequence for the losers of the relay, on one side and the other: death and exodus. And that is what the Armenians know.
65,000 people on their way to Goris
The Azerbaijani Government has said that it will promote the "integration" of the Armenians, and the majority are not faithful to these words of Kabu. In Nagorno Karabakh, 120,000 Armenians lived until last week, but 65,000 people have left the country. Shahramanyan’s decree requires that citizens stop passing through the Latxin pass without restrictions, with their cars and assets, “including the militants who have left the guns.”
The Latxin crossing had been closed for months by the Azerbaijani militiamen, a blockade that has left serious consequences for the population of Nagorno Karabakh. According to CNN, using sources from the US International Development Agency, many of those who have come to exile have reached a "regrettable" situation and suffer from "severe malnutrition".
Most of the exiles have taken refuge in Goris, a tourist city on the border with Armenia.El The Guardian correspondent has written that hundreds of refugees arrive in this city every hour, travelling through the endless caravan stretching over a hundred kilometres through the capital of Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
Next Armenia?
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has become a sacrifice in this area between Europe and Asia. The distance between Russia and Armenia and Turkey’s ability to influence relations between the West and Russia have to do with it.
Thus, as the journalist Karlos Zurutuza explains in this article by Naiz, the next piece may be Armenia itself. In the capital of Armenia, Erevan, protests against its president, Nikol Pashinian, are increasing: "But a change of face in small Armenia will not prevent its people from living the most difficult times since the genocide in Anatolia," says Zurutuza.
The Centre Tricontinental has described the historical resistance of the Congolese in the dossier The Congolese Fight for Their Own Wealth (the Congolese people struggle for their wealth) (July 2024, No. 77). During the colonialism, the panic among the peasants by the Force... [+]
On November 25, International Day against Male Violence, the Steilas Feminist Union Feminist Secretariat has published a poster: Our body is a battlefield, and all the schools in Hego Euskal Herria have received it. We wish to denounce the violence suffered by women and children... [+]
“The time has come for courageous, comprehensive and noble proposals (…) for Euskal Herria to re-enter the world’s revolts,” said friend Hartu López Arana in her opinion article “For an effective aggression” published in ARGIA magazine in July 2018. Six years have... [+]
Japan, 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States launched an atomic bomb causing tens of thousands of deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; although there are no precise figures, the most cautious estimates indicate that at least 210,000 people died at the end of that year. But in... [+]
The nuclear winter theory Paul J. It was the result of an investigation published in 1982 by Crutzen and John Birks. According to this study, "nuclear explosions and subsequent fires would release large amounts of soot, dust and ash into the atmosphere, causing a notable... [+]
On this rainy Sunday, we are responsible for the fate of people living in disquiet at the various conflicts that exist in the world. By far, it seems that we cannot be freed from the hands of many rulers acting towards power. Many human beings live in the world with the... [+]
The following infographic is based on the report number 55 of the Delàs Peace Research Center of Catalonia, published in October 2022. In the report, Xavier Bohigas, Pere Brunet, Teresa de Fortuny, Anna Montull García and Pere Ortega analysed in depth the links between... [+]
When I was a kid, it was customary at home to park what we were doing at eight o'clock in the afternoon, assemble the TV and watch the ETB1 news. At first, I was very irritated by those unjust changes in the night chain, and I was asking my parents how it was possible that, being... [+]
In the fall of 1415 the battle of Agrincourt erupted between England and France, one of the most decisive wars of the Hundred Years War. To this end, when Henry V, king of England and lord of Ireland, decided to send his army to France that summer, the soldiers landed on the... [+]
In the 1980s, the young Basques sang “si vis pacem, para bellum”. If you want peace, get ready for war, we screamed in Latin, without understanding very well the meaning of the phrase.
At that time, the Basque conflict was in the vortex and the world lived in the last years... [+]