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The guide finished: “So you see, the deportation of 1988 was the result of the third part of a conflict which Armenia started with us in the last 100 years.” She said there were one million Azeri refugees now in Azerbaijan, 400,000 deported from Armenia by Armenians and 600,000 who left Nagorno-Karabakh and surroundings. Those who have not been absorbed in the existing cities have been placed in different parts of Azerbaijan. Some fifty miles south of Baku we later saw a village which had been built four years ago for refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Our guide said that Azerbaijan was still home to some 60,000 Armenians. “The mother of our President and the wife of our Vice President are Armenian. But you cannot find an Azeri in Armenia. If I go to Armenia they will cut my head off.”

Photo essay: The ongoing formation of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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