STEPANAKERT, NKR (A.W.)—The Nagorno-Karabagh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army quelled a diversion attempt by the Azerbaijani Army that took place around 11:20 p.m. on March 10. According to the NKR Defense Ministry, the NKR Defense Army pushed the Azerbaijani troops back to their positions, killing at least two and wounding several others; the NKR Defense Army suffered no casualties.
More than 5,500 shots from various guns of different calibers were shot at Armenian positions on March 10 and 11. According to the NKR Defense Ministry press statement, the Azerbaijani Army also used howitzer cannons alongside the usual arsenal.
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The timing of this flagrant aggression is suspicious but predictable.
Turkey’s President Erdogan will visit Azerbaijan on 3/15. So, Erdogan
and Aliyev are stirring the situation and raising the conflict on the
Line of Contact, for internal propaganda.
The real question is how the Obama administration will react, and whether his puppet, co-chair of the OSCE Minsk group, Mr Warlick will condemn the attack, or as usual put the blame on both sides.
To counter this, it is extremely critical that all Armenian-Americans,if have not done yet, visit http://www.anca.org/Action and take action. It takes few minutes, but can have a real tangible impact.
Vart Adjemian
Whatever the motives of Azeri government NKR forces must go beyond self-defense . NKR forces must go further than silencing the enemy, they must deal hard blow to Baku from which they will not be able to recover..
Obama and his government would not know how to resolve this issue, they would not know how to resvolve any issue. Warlick, is as before, an absolutely useless member of the minsk group. Obama will not do anything. Why not tackle the issue of who is supplying arms to those azeri’s. Where is that useless mob called the UN? why are they not attacking the main issue – “arms” – to simple, as they do not have the guts and neither have the americans to condemn very strongly what the azeri’s are doing. They cannot even condemn turkey because of political pressures. Ironic?????????????