{"id":615,"date":"2024-04-30T04:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/?p=615"},"modified":"2024-04-30T04:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:40:01","slug":"armenians-fear-another-war-despite-talk-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/armenians-fear-another-war-despite-talk-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenians fear another war despite talk of peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>hen more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh last September, Nina Shahverdyan and her brother, parents and cousin spent 30 hours on the road trying to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People died of heart attacks. People died because they were just too old to live through that pain. Children were crying,&#8221; she remembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a matter of days Azerbaijan&#8217;s military regained all the lands it had lost in a war triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What worries Armenians now is that their neighbour wants more, even if Azerbaijan&#8217;s president talks of being close &#8220;as never before&#8221; to a peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have heard Ilham Aliyev speak before of Armenia being &#8220;Western Azerbaijan&#8221; and see it as a sign of imminent invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only last month Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned that Azerbaijan was looking to start &#8220;a new, large-scale war&#8221;. He has since agreed to hand back four abandoned border villages in a sign of improving relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan says Armenian fears are unfounded. However, President Aliyev has demanded that Armenia give his country a free railroad corridor through its territory to its exclave of Nakhichevan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia wants to have control over the road and the Azerbaijani leader has in the past threatened to take the corridor &#8220;by force&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An increasing number of civilians in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, are taking up military training run by volunteer organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a boy or a girl,&#8221; says Nina, as she learns to use firearms. &#8220;You need to know how to protect yourself in a country like Armenia, where all the borders can be attacked.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1nynxU.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=341&amp;y=207&amp;s=63&amp;d=63\" alt=\"Armenia has agreed to hand back four border villages to Azerbaijan, prompting protests from nearby residents\" title=\"Armenia has agreed to hand back four border villages to Azerbaijan, prompting protests from nearby residents\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hen more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh last September, Nina Shahverdyan and her brother, parents and cousin spent 30 hours on the road trying to leave. &ldquo;People died of heart attacks. People died because they were just too old to live through that pain. Children were crying,&rdquo; she remembers. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}