On the night of 1-2 April 2016, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh escalated into regional warfare as offensive military operations progressed across the “line of contact”. Though commonly referred as a “frozen conflict”, which has never been such for communities in their everyday lives, it is now enough exacerbated for the exploitation by industrial military complex and media gaze for blood.
Numerous soldiers, civilians, including children were killed and wounded in the brutal clashes, reminding us that behind “the line of contact” there are people and communities and their tragic lived experiences of war.
War is the performance of hegemonic masculinities and reproduction of patriarchy and male-centric state’s monopoly over use of violence. War is a nationalist state’s legitimization of capitalist industrial military complex to continue its trade at the cost of people’s lives, which are not to be rescued and to be failed again by paternalist peacekeeping forces.
