A relic of a war that isn't really over. Demotix / Onnik Krikorian. All rights reserved.
IWPR: As an upsurge in fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops is accompanied by increasingly tough rhetoric, the ceasefire that has held for two decades is under more strain than ever. The competing accounts of what is going on along the border and the ‘line of contact’ around Nagorno-Karabakh are hard to reconcile, but adding up all the reports of ceasefire violations gives around 5,000 for January—the biggest monthly figure since active hostilities ended in a truce in 1994.
“From a military perspective, this escalation per se is not new,” said Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Centre in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. “What is new, however, is an expanded battle space—the geography of attacks is much broader and includes parts of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border—and an expansion in intensity of the attacks.”
