Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990
The Shame of Armenia
By Elena Bonner, Translated by Jamey Gambrell
For two and a half years the Trans-Caucasus has been burning and bleeding. Six million Azerbaijanis living in a territory of 86,000 square kilometers, and three million Armenians in a territory of 30,000 square kilometers, have forgotten peace. Why has this happened? The 157,000 Armenians of the 4,000 square meters of Nagorno-Karabakh made their will manifest: in a resolution during the February 20, 1988, session of the Regional Council they demanded the right to be reunited with their people in Armenia. Since then we have been calling this war a 'conflict,' or 'the actions of extremists, bandits'—anything but war. A war of the strong against the weak, a conflict between law and violence. Karabakh began with law, Azerbaijan responded with violence.
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