Already 100,417 refugees have taken refuge in Armenia Nagorno Karabakh Nazili Bagdasaryan, spokeswoman for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, said in a press conference on Saturday. The population of the Armenian enclave is estimated at about 120 thousand people.
Earlier, the Armenian authorities reported alleged ethnic cleansing operations committed by Azerbaijani forces.
On Thursday, the Azerbaijani authorities appealed to Armenians not to leave the enclave but to become “part of the multi-ethnic Azerbaijani society.” The Foreign Ministry in Baku said leaving the enclave was a personal decision of residents and had nothing to do with forced migration.
A video clip appeared on social media showing an abandoned square in the center of the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani Prosecutor General Kayamran Aliyev announced on Sunday that Baku had issued international arrest warrants for more than 300 Armenian separatists. Haqin website reported that among those wanted were the leaders of the separatist authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The prosecutor said that Azerbaijan had collected evidence of crimes committed by separatists, starting from the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “A total of 300 criminal cases have been opened. There are more than 300 criminals wanted under international arrest warrants,” Aliyev said.
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