14 September 2014, 01:43
Nagorno-Karabakh presents book about refugees from Azerbaijan
On September 11, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert hosted a presentation of the book written by Anna Terkott-Astvatsaturyan and titled "To Nowhere: The Story of Exile", telling about refugees who left Azerbaijan in the course of the Karabakh conflict. Participants of the presentation have noted that after 20 years, the refugee problem has not been solved yet.
The book includes the author's recollections from her diary, which describes the facts of persecution and murders of the Armenians, who lived in Azerbaijan in 1988-1992.
The book was published in English in more than 3000 copies. The publication costs were born by the family members of Anna Terkott-Astvatsaturyan.
"The book is unique, since it is the only story book in English telling the readers about the pogroms of Armenians in Baku," said Sarasar Saryan, the leader of the NGO of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees.
According to Sarasar Saryan, since the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, Nagorno-Karabakh admitted more than 100,000 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, and most of them went to Armenia, many of the others went abroad. "At present, more than 20,000 refugees stay in Nagorno-Karabakh, and social problems of the most of them have not been solved yet," Sarasar Saryan has stated.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Alvard Grigoryan Source: CK correspondent
