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During 44 days of the war, the region saw an end of the conflict after a ceasefire agreement was signed by the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on 9 November to end the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh kept its de facto autonomy, but Azerbaijan maintains its claim to it with the government establishing the Karabakh Region Authority (KRU) for the districts of Nagorno-Karabakh that came under Baku's control. The city of Stepanakert (Khankendi) is now under the jurisdiction of the KRU of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh kept its de facto autonomy, but Azerbaijan maintains its claim to it with the government establishing the Karabakh Region Authority (KRU) for the districts of Nagorno-Karabakh that came under Baku's control. The city of Stepanakert (Khankendi) is now under the jurisdiction of the KRU of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan.
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14 imagesArina, an 88 years old Armenian lady whose husband died due to a heart attack following the scenery he'd seen after Azerbaijan air forces struck Nagorno Karabakh during 44 days of the war in 2020. "He was devastated to see Azeris are attacking again and died after his heart was struck due to stress," she told me. Being the 2nd wife of her late husband she doesn't have any children. She doesn't get to see her step-children either she said on Thursday, Jan 28, 2021, in Stepanakert. During our conversation, she repeatedly said: "....take me to America." She lives in a halfway house that needs renovating. The bomb that struck her house devastated its structure, she now lives in its rubbles. She said she is from Sumgait, (Sumqayit), which is the third-largest city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, about 31 kilometres away from the capital, Baku. She said that she fled Sumqayit following an organised attack targeting the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait in the then Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in late February 1988. Being forced to flee Sumgait she and her husband lived in Yerevan and later sometime in 1994 they started a new life in Stepanakert, following Armenian occupation of Nagorno Karabakh region. 26 years later her house is struck by an Azerbaijani airstrike in Stepanakert, the capital city of the Self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. (Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti)