“Why don’t the Azerbaijanis understand that we want you to come home so we can hug you?” four-year-old Nane asked her father.
Little Nane is in Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian region of Azerbaijan of about 120,000 people within the Karabakh mountain range. Her father is stuck in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, which is Azerbaijan's neighbour. And since 12 December, he has been unable to return home. Azerbaijanis who claim to be eco-activists have, with the support of their government, blocked the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and the world beyond.
Azerbaijan has also attacked local infrastructure, cutting off electricity and gas. This has left the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, including 30,000 children, under siege. Shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies are deepening.
