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Nearly All Ethnic Armenians Have Fled Nagorno-Karabakh

ALAIN JOCARD
Refugees load a truck in Goris on Sept. 26 before leaving to Yerevan. A continuous stream of vehicles crept along the only road out of Nagorno-Karabakh toward Armenia, carrying tens of thousands of refugees now faced with an uncertain future.

Since the Azeri takeover, widespread fears of genocide and religious and cultural persecution have led nearly all of the Nagorno-Karabakh population to leave the region.