N°10 – The Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
After a nine-month blockade, Azerbaijan launched an offensive to reclaim Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing more than 100,000 people to flee. Astrig, a journalist for ereb, followed two sisters who were first seperated by the blockade and then reunited by this forced exodus.
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Yerevan, 11th October 2023
This summer, we began following Naré and Nanar, two sisters from Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. One was living in Armenia at the time, the other in their native region. In December 2022, Azerbaijan’s blockade of Karabakh separated this family and thousands of others for 9 months. While Nanar suffered hunger and war, Naré tried to mobilise the Armenian government and the international community to try and save them.
However in September 2023, just as we were doing the final edits of this documentary, Azerbaijan launched an offensive to reclaim the territory. The invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijani troops made Nanar and the more than 100,000 inhabitants of the enclave, refugees of an ethnic cleansing. We are inviting you to listen to the testimonies of these two sisters in our documentary.
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Astrig is a journalist for ereb. At the beginning of the year, when we were considering ways of covering the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Astrig put forward the idea of focusing on a family separated by the blockade. The documentary which followed – made with the help of Marta Miskaryan’s translations and put together by our editor François – is the first in our new series, ‘Off the Trail’, and was produced in partnership with the independent European media network, Sphera Network. Don’t hesitate to give us your feedback on this new format and subscribe to our chaîne YouTube for future episodes.
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