"Since the early 1990s, Azerbaijan has been trying to secure the return of ethnic Azeris who were forced from their homes by war. A Nagorno-Karabakh process that will receive a burst of attention this month when the two sides meet in
But the window for a breakthrough is narrow, and people here say their patience is gone.
It is tempting to forget about the "frozen conflicts." The enclaves of Nagorno-Karabakh, Transdniester in
But conditions have been shifting, slowly but surely, in a dangerous direction.
Negotiations mediated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Both countries are engaged in a steep military buildup;
With frustration building, threats of war have become so entwined with negotiations that it is difficult to say where one begins and the other ends.
"There is no guarantee that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow a war between
He said
Among the forces driving
Cease-fire violations — every year, snipers kill roughly 30 people on the so-called line of contact — can take on huge proportions. In March, Armenian sniper had killed a 9-year-old Azeri boy, Fariz Badalov. Azeri television featured the boy’s pitiful life story. The single bullet that crossed the line of contact that day was the one that lodged in the boy’s head.
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