Armenians Flee Military Offensive

Hundreds of ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia days after Azerbaijan seized control of the breakaway territory in a military offensive.

The Armenian government said late on Sunday that a total of 1,050 people had crossed into the country from Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in Azerbaijan populated mainly by ethnic Armenians.

Armenia said it is prepared to take them in after Azerbaijan’s military victory last week in a conflict dating to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday that he expected about 120,000 civilians in the region in the South Caucasus to leave for Armenia because they do not want to live in part of Azerbaijan and fear “the danger of ethnic cleansing”.

He said the likelihood is increasing that the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will see expulsion from their homeland as the only way out