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Information War Rages over Karabakh | EurasiaNet.org

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Disturbing reports of atrocities, and official claims and counterclaims continue to stream from the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone as fighting enters its third day. With no international media or conflict-monitoring mission apparently yet on the ground in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, it is next to impossible to glean frontline facts from the ongoing information war.

That lack of objective information could become even more critical in the coming days. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, a Karabakh native, pledged on April 4 that escalation of the fighting, the worst since the signing of a 1994 ceasefire, would prompt Yerevan to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state.

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Can Karabakh Pull Back from the Brink? | EurasiaNet.org

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After a long simmer, the Nagorno-Karabakh war has once again boiled over. And turning off the heat at this point may not be so easy.

Three days of fighting have left dozens dead and dozens more wounded. It marks the bloodiest combat between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces since the signing of a ceasefire agreement in 1994. International mediators for the OSCE Minsk Group – which is led by the United States, France and Russia, and is responsible for trying to broker a lasting Karabakh peace settlement – were scheduled to convene April 5 in Vienna to discuss responses to the renewed fighting.

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Azerbaijan : Can a Water Reservoir Help Resolve the Karabakh Conflict ? | EurasiaNet.org

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Water, or more accurately access to water, is just another weapon in the nearly 30-year conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno Karabakh territory.

When a 1994 ceasefire brought an end to active fighting between Azerbaijan, Armenia and ethnic Armenian separatists over Karabakh, Azerbaijan lost not only territory, but also access to the 560-million-cubic-meter Sarsang Reservoir.

Built in 1976 on the Tartar River, the reservoir, situated within Karabakh, used to provide drinking and irrigation water not only to the remote mountainous region itself, but also to six surrounding regions now occupied by Armenian and separatist forces. Among them is the mostly Azerbaijani-controlled region of Tartar, a land of rolling hills situated on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces.

Depuis deux jours je suis dans mes archives caucasiennes, je viens de retrouver des documents issus de mes missions dans le Haut-Karabagh, je ne résiste pas à vous montrer ce document historique, les félicitations de Brejnev (à la fin des années 1970) aux fiers travailleurs socialistes qui venatent de terminer la construction du site hydroélectrique du réservoir de Särsäng :

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Nagorno-Karabakh: The Conflict No-one, Including Israel, Wants to Solve - World News - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com

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Outside observers don’t have a clear idea who started the latest rounds of artillery shelling between the Azerbaijani army and the pro-Armenian separatists, in what has been described as the worst fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave since the ceasefire in the Azerbaijan-Armenia war in 1994. The roots of the war are in the ancient enmity between the Christian Armenians and the Muslim Azeris and for over quarter of a century now, has been the result of the messy dissolution of the Soviet Union which left an area with an ethnic-Armenian majority, which wants to join Armenia, within Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory.

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