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As Azerbaijan Consolidates Control, Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh - bellingcat
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Newly obtained satellite images show the mass exodus of people from the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where fears of the ethnic cleansing of Armenians have escalated since Azerbaijani forces launched an offensive there last week.Other open source data collected by Bellingcat confirms ongoing Azerbaijani military presence in communities ethnic Armenians have fled from.
Over 70,000 ethnic Armenians have fled since Baku launched the offensive last week according to Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the press secretary of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Since the latest escalation of this long-running conflict, Bellingcat has monitored open source information in an attempt to understand the scale of this crisis and is consistently archiving footage from the area.
A group of Azerbaijani soldiers also posed for a photo in front of Martakert’s regional administration building (40.215012, 46.826210) posted to TikTok on September 26, suggesting control of the city centre.
An additional video from Charekdar shows Azerbaijani soldiers and an armoured vehicle firing in the direction of a group of houses (40.137779, 46.344075), with the 13th-century Charektar Monastery visible on a hilltop above.
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