“We can’t go back. All the things we created for decades have gone.”
Indeed. People fleeing jihads through the ages have said the same thing, and only very rarely have ever been able to go back.
“Last bus of fleeing Armenians leaves Nagorno-Karabakh to bring end to exodus: ‘It’s a ghost town,’” by Bel Trew, Independent, October 2, 2023:
The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians has left Nagorno-Karabakh, bringing an end to an extraordinary exodus of more than 100,000 people since control of the region was retaken by Azerbaijan.
Fifteen passengers with serious illnesses and mobility problems were aboard the bus as it left the breakaway enclave, said Gegham Stepanyan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s human rights ombudsman.
Armenian authorities said that 100,514 people – or 85 per cent of residents – have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, which is recognised internationally as a part of Azerbaijan but has operated as a de facto state for several decades following a war in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As the last buses left, videos emerged showing eerily deserted streets inside the main city of Stepanakert, or Khankendi as it is known in Azerbaijan.
Empty prams, baby cots, children’s scooters and chairs are shown scattered across the main street, where tens of thousands of people had gathered waiting for buses and cars. Azerbaijani police checkpoints have been set up on the city’s edges, and Russian peacekeeping troops are still manning their bases on the outskirts.
Former residents who had fled in recent days told The Independent it was a “ghost town”.
“We don’t know what will happen now,” said Lusine Barkhudaryan, a former member of the self-declared government, who had reached the Armenian border town of Goris. She said she only knew a handful of people who had stayed behind, mostly the elderly as they had nowhere to go.
“We can’t go back. All the things we created for decades have gone.”…
Fitna says
Truly sad and tragic…but this jihad is global and nobody is even speaking out about it, except here. Where is the UN, Amnesty Intl and other organizations? Where is Hollywood, why aren’t they crying about the fleeing non-Muslims the way they cried about blacks in South Africa?
Nobody wants to discuss the jihad, even though it’d be a fairly easy problem to solve if we send in troops or aided Armenia and African countries so that Christians, Atheists and other non-Muslims can protect themselves.
Combined with Muslims high birthrates, mass migration, we’re being assaulted by Islam from every direction and the media stays silent. The survival of freedom and civilization is as stake and we’re doing nothing to save them.
Peacelover says
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so many of them think they are being on some ‘high horse’ in their ‘open-mindedness’.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“…we’re being assaulted by Islam from every direction and the media stays silent.”
Yes, and – to top it off – when they are not silent, they are apologists for islam.
Peacelover says
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OLD GUY says
Islam knows where to spread the money around.
Fitna says
Agreed Peacelover and James.
Politically correctness regarding Muslims and Islam continues to be a major problem in the West.
Until we treat Muslims like the plague that they are, we won’t make any progress.
Peacelover says
Once again,the camel’s head was in the tent and then the whole camel. Who knows where else that is going to happen next?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I hope that Ruben Vardanyan too is released and allowed to go to Armenia
Crusades Were Right says
Mr. Vardanyan, I understand, is a very wealthy man who put himself in danger’s way for the love of Artsakh and its people. A genuine hero.
Having fallen into the hands of the Azerbaijan Turks, I fear he may soon be martyred.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
His people have escaped from that place. He should leave as well and go to Armenia. Work on a new life there, and in the meantime, Armenia should start arming itself to the teeth
GreekEmpress says
+1
Aum says
Pope – Any Comment on this issue?
Archbishop of Canterbury – Any Comment?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Different sects. But how about the Patriarch of Moscow, Sergei Kirill? He’s at least the head of an Orthodox church, the largest one, in fact, and he has the ears of Vladimir Putin
GreekEmpress says
Here’s some more info on Vardanyan. He’s a very interesting man. Many Armenians feel an affinity towards Russia because the country took in so many during the genocide.
Sounds like he has a very high net worth. No doubt the Azeris are trying to figure out how to get his wealth before they do him in—
https://www.rferl.org/amp/karabakh-vardanian-arrested-armenia-azerbaijan-russia/32612555.html
dando says
why you guys say azerbajian attacking armenia is religion conflict ? why isnt russian invasion of ukraine also religion conflict ? you know azerbajain is secular nation and regonize israel and have 15,00 JEWS that live in it compared to armenia noexistent jews ! ?