By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE - As tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians flee their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, several international experts say the exodus meetsSaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for September 29, 2023 | SaltWireTHE HAGUE - As tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians flee their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, several international experts say the exodus meets the conditions for the war crime of"deportation or forcible transfer", or...
The exodus has evoked the spectre of the 1988-94 war between Armenians and their Azeri neighbours, part of a history of ethnic bloodshed and displacement going back generations that scars the region's folk memory and has bred deep mutual fear and suspicion. Such a"coercive environment" was created in Nagorno-Karabakh before the offensive by Azerbaijan's obstruction of essential supplies, said international lawyer Priya Pillai and Melanie O'Brien, visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
O'Brien believes the blockade - which Baku said was needed to prevent weapons smuggling - was in effect the start of a genocide because it was implemented with the aim of"deliberately inflicting conditions of life designed to bring about the physical destruction of the targeted group". At the same time, some 500,000 Azeris from Karabakh and the areas around it were expelled from their homes while 350,000 Armenians left Azerbaijan and 186,000 Azerbaijanis left Armenia.
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