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Armenia

‘Every day I fear the war will return’ — the displaced Armenians returning to the border regions

by Armine Avetisyan

•3 min read

Around 7,600 Armenians were displaced in the wake of the September clashes on the border with Azerbaijan. While most have returned to their homes, people fear further escalations as tensions continue to flare on the border and in Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost four dozen settlements spread across three Armenian provinces were targeted by Azerbaijani shelling in the clashes of 13–14 September. Official estimates suggest that 192 residential buildings, three hotels, two schools, and one medical centre

The IDPs returning to Aghali. Photo: Report.az.

Azerbaijan

First Azerbaijani IDPs return after 29 years in exile

by Ismi Aghayev

•2 min read

A group of 41 families from the village of Aghali, in the Zangilan District, have become the first Azerbaijanis displaced during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War to return to their hometowns. On 19 July, the first wave of returnees departed to the village from the Zangilan District Executive Authority, currently located in Baku. They are the first of hundreds of thousands of displaced Azerbaijanis who have been promised homes in the areas that Azerbaijan took control of following the Second Na

Former sanatorium Kartli building. Image via PalitraNews footage

Georgia

Neighbours claim IDP jumped to his death over ‘unlivable’ housing in Tbilisi

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

Neighbours of a man who allegedly jumped from the roof of the building in which he resided have condemned what they labelled government spin over his death, accusing them of disrespecting him. Zurab Chichoshvili, an internally displaced person (IDP) in his early 50s, fell from the roof of a former sanatorium housing IDPs on Sunday evening, dying instantly. The incident happened amidst demands from him and other residents of the building for alternative housing. Neighbours immediately gathere

Imdad Alizade, who fled his home during the first Nagorno-Karabakh War, at a family gathering in the kindergarten they reside in in 2015.

Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict

Azerbaijan’s children of war: Part II

by Hamida Giyasbayli

•7 min read

Leyla and Imdad were only children when the First Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out. In part two of this series on the lives of Azerbaijani internally displaced persons (IDPs), they tell the stories of their lives after the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. [Read: Azerbaijan’s children of war: Part I] After the 1994 ceasefire that brought an end to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Leyla Jahangirova’s family, who fled their home village of Tugh, in Nagorno-Karabakh, several years prior, move

Leyla and her mother, Tugh village, 28 June 1985.

Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict

Azerbaijan’s children of war: Part I

by Hamida Giyasbayli

•7 min read

Leyla and Imdad were only children when the First Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out, in part one of this multi-part series on the lives of Azerbaijani IDPs, they tell the stories of their displacement and survival. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, armed conflicts in the Caucasus have resulted in more than 2 million refugees and IDPs across the region — with reverberations of these conflicts, displacing more people still. The latest tragedy, the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, initial

Abkhazia

Video | No Place to Live — IDPs in Georgia

by Dato Parulava

•0 min read

After almost three decades since the war in Abkhazia, thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are still waiting for the government to provide them with homes. Why are they are still waiting?

Abkhazia

Armenia abstains from voting against Georgian IDP resolution at UN for first time

by OC Media

•4 min read

Armenia has abstained from voting on a UN resolution calling for the return of IDPs to Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the first time since 2008, when the resolution was first introduced. Armenia had previously always voted against the resolution in the annual votes at the UN General Assembly. On 4 June, during the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the resolution was adopted with 79 countries voting in favour, 15 against, and 57 abstentions. In a statement, the Georgian Foreign Mini