About 50 people, mostly children, rushed as they disembarked from a large truck in the Armenian border village of Kornidzor on Tuesday after spending two days on the road as part of the mass exodus of Armenians fleeing Azerbaijani forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Mektar Tlalakian (54 years old), who traveled with her daughter Anna and her three grandchildren, said, "It rained all night, and there was no shelter. The driver took some children into his cabin to provide shelter for at least some of them." Tlalakian added that her daughter’s husband remains in Karabakh after fighting alongside the defeated separatist forces. All passengers of the truck and its driver, numbering 49, are from the village of Ertuk, located about 170 kilometers away in Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that is predominantly populated by Armenians and was regained by Baku forces last week in a swift attack that drove thousands to flee, resulting in a major humanitarian crisis for Armenia. At least one of the children appeared to have Down syndrome, and others seemed to have disabilities.
Children of Karabakh Experience the Ancestral Diaspora
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