Since the 2020 war, Azerbaijani internally displaced persons from Karabakh have been expecting an early return to their homeland. But before they had time to rejoice at this prospect, they found themselves face to face with uncertainty. When will they return home and how? The story of Gulbyaniz Kerimova, an...
Azerbaijanis recall the first day of the second Karabakh war The Trajectories project invited people from both sides of the Karabakh conflict to share their memories of Sunday 27 September, when the second Karabakh war began. These are three stories from Azerbaijan and there are three stories from Armenia in...
The Trajectories project invited people from both sides of the Karabakh conflict to tell what Sunday 27 September 2020 when the second Karabakh war began was like for them. These three stories are from the Armenian side. There are also stories of the inhabitants of Azerbaijan in the “Trajectories” project....
Colonel Mekhak Arzumanyan, Head of the Emergency Situations Service of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, told his stories to the “Trajectories” project. He is one of the rescuers who, since November 13, 2020, have been participating in the search for the bodies of servicemen who died in the second Karabakh war....
Stepanakert during and after the second Karabakh war The author of this blog who prefers to remain anonymous resides in Stepanakert (in Azerbaijan the city is called Khankendi). They had been living there until the second Karabakh war (September 27 – November 10, 2020), left it for a short time...
Young teacher Margarita Manukyan told the #trajectory_people_conflict project about how just two years of work in a distant village in Karabakh has changed her life plans. “A lost place”, “how do people even live here”, “There is no entertainment at all”, thought a girl born and raised in Yerevan, when...
The 2020 war in Karabakh has changed something in the life of everyone in Azerbaijan. Some rejoice at the opportunity to return to their native village, some mourn the dead. Ayaz and Gunel are among those who have lost friends due to the war, but not at the front. Ayaz...
This story is one of many that are told by the Armenian settlers from Karabakh after the second Karabakh war. Four children in Karine Melkonyan’s family were born in their house in the village of Vazgenashen in Karabakh [in Azerbaijan, this village is called Gyulably, of the Aghdam region –...
“I got to the front on the night of the same day when the Second Karabakh war began. Although at that time I still did not believe that it had begun. I thought it was another muscle flexing of the warring parties. In the dark, I familiarized myself with the...
