After the 44-Day War, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev faced a serious problem. Despite enormous expenditures, large-scale construction projects and the building of mosques in Artsakh and adjacent territories, Azerbaijanis avoided moving to those occupied territories. Speaking to The Armenian Weekly, Yerevan-based regional security analyst and
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It is irrelevant that Artsakh is not attractive or economically viable for Azeris; what matters is that Azeris have turned Artsakh into a dystopian land by destroying almost all Armenian heritage after ethnically cleansing all Armenians. According to their twisted “logic,” the Azerbaijani regime would rather turn Artsakh into a toxic wasteland unsuitable for human habitation, including for Azeris, than allow Armenians to live there, which they never will, and no Armenian would ever consider living in a totalitarian, fascist, Armenophobic Azerbaijan. Artsakh has become Nakhichevan 2.0.
The author fails to answer the question posed in the article’s headline – “Why Azerbaijanis won’t live in occupied Artsakh”. Is she claiming that no Azerbaijanis have moved to Artsakh? I don’t understand the focus of the article.