CBN News – SOUTHERN ARMENIA – While the world focuses on Israel’s war against Hamas, an ongoing conflict threatens a tiny Christian nation at the intersection of Europe and Asia. Armenia is facing a potential genocide at the hands of its militant neighbor, Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan’s army is five times larger than Armenia’s. With backing from Turkey, Azerbaijan moved in October to take over the Nagorno-Karabach district, a disputed exclave of 1,700 square miles that has been inhabited by Armenians for millennia.
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After a brutal war over that territory in 2020, a ceasefire was brokered by Russia, who sent peacekeepers to enforce the terms of the deal. Now, as Russia’s war against Ukraine takes a heavy toll, Azerbaijan seized the region in a brutal 3-day campaign and drove out more than 120,000 Armenians. 
Armenian survivor Gita recalled, “I was in my father’s village when the attack took place. The first explosions were in the village. All of us were shocked, we did not know what to do.”
Jacob Pursley, a businessman in Armenia, said, “Unfortunately, the news cycle has ignored most of what’s happened of this ethnic cleansing that started on September 19th of this year.”
“A bomb fell on our neighbor’s house and we heard their cry for help,” Gita said. “I ran there with that lady, along with some other women, since there were no men left in the village. We somehow dragged him out of there but he had lost a lot of blood and there was no hope for him to survive.”
The military assault created a massive humanitarian crisis and generated allegations of Azeri war crimes which have drawn criticism from the West.
Gita said, “I started walking out of the village. There were many people in cars, leaving. And I was walking. A truck came by and I grabbed onto its side and he drove me like that for a couple of… read more, see short video here
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