“We Didn’t Have Anywhere to Go”
As Azerbaijan reclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh, its Armenian population faced a devastating choice: flee or risk death.
Lala, right, visiting her sister’s grave in Yerablur military cemetery in Yerevan with her parents and nephew. (Omar Hamed Beato / Jacobin)
On September 12, 2022, Gayane, a forty-two-year-old mother of four, made a brief phone call to her eight-year-old son, Hayk, to check in and let him know she would be unreachable for a while. Just weeks earlier, she had been deployed with her army regiment to patrol the town of Sotk, the last Armenian town […]
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