Azerbaijan won the war, but hardly anybody noticed

The Armenians drove over half a million Azeris out of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and large adjacent entirely Azeri provinces in the 1992-94 war. Now the Azeri refugees will go home and 150,000 Armenians will have to seek new homes in Armenia proper. None of it is fair, but that’s how it still works in much of the world.

The month-old war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is so low on everybody else’s list of concerns that when Azerbaijan won the war last Monday morning, hardly anybody in the media elsewhere even noticed, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of CBS News Oct. 28

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 2, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The month-old war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is so low on everybody else’s list of concerns that when Azerbaijan won the war last Monday morning, hardly anybody in the media elsewhere even noticed. Shortly after 8 a.m. local time on Monday, Azeri troops gained control of the ro...

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