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I wanted to learn why we have two very passionate uploaders regarding this conflict so I found a recent LA Times article that was helpful for my understanding. I wish there was some other way for this to be resolved.

"We’re used to it. For myself I’m not worried,” Abrahamian said of the hostilities raging once more in this disputed territory, a mountainous region tucked between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It lies at the heart of a seething, decades-long fight that began during the chaotic breakup of the Soviet Union and that flared up again almost two weeks ago.

Abrahamian, one of the about 150,000 ethnic Armenians who claim the enclave as their own — it’s recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan — had fought in an earlier iteration of the conflict; now his two sons were at the front line, continuing a generational war that inflects so much of life in this onetime Soviet splinter enclave.

“It’s our destiny. It’s our duty. … We will never leave Artsakh,” Abrahamian said, employing the traditional Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh.