Armenians returning to Nagorno-Karabakh to empty their homes with the ceasefire

Armenian soldiers cross the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia near Vardenis on November 8, 2020. AP

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After the agreement signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Tuesday under the auspices of Russia to end six weeks of deadly fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenians demonstrated by the thousands in Yerevan on Wednesday to denounce the attitude of their Prime Minister, Nikol Pachinian, whom they accuse of treason.

In any case, the cease-fire still seems to hold.

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With our special correspondent in Vardenis,

The

has been in force since Tuesday 1am when it entered into force.

Immediately, the Russian interposition forces invested the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the seven districts, or at least part of the seven districts, which have been occupied by Armenia for nearly 30 years around Nagorno-Karabakh.

What has surprised observers a lot since Wednesday is the speed with which not only

, with nearly 2,000 men, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven districts, but above all with which it has succeeded. to offer maps, to explain how it will organize its peacekeeping force, its interposition force, by showing precisely the places where it was going to patrol, the places where there would be observation posts.

Vardenis is located near the district of Kelbadjar, one of the seven districts where the population will have to leave since this district must be returned on the 15th, in three days, to Azerbaijan.

Taking into account the rather threatening remarks of the Azerbaijani President who on the one hand admittedly said that he wanted the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities to live together, but on the other spoke of " 

 " when speaking of Armenians, many indeed fit into the region to empty their house, and probably empty it forever.

■ Young people still behind Nikol Pachinian

We have heard a lot of the anger of the Armenians opposed to the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, often veterans of the war for independence of the territory, former soldiers convinced that they could have turned the tide of the war.

The Pachinian generation has not yet made itself heard.

They are between 20 and 40 years old, they studied, traveled, they are the first two and a half years ago, to be out in the streets for the velvet revolution against corruption and the oligarchs that brought to power Nikol Pachinian.

After the end of the war, they still support their Prime Minister. 

Shocked, hurt, but a part of relief because the war stopped, and it saved many deaths.

The Pachinian generation

Anissa El Jabri

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