Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh region ride in a truck upon their arrival at the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia, September 27. Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians, most of them Christian, are fleeing the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh following a defeat by surrounding Azerbaijan forces, with Armenia’s president saying that “ethnic cleansing” is taking place. Photo: OSV News/Irakli Gedenidze, Reuters. More than 66,000 people – most of them Christian – have fled Nagorno-Karabakh as of September 27, abandoning the historic, Christian-majority Armenian enclave (known in Armenian by its ancient name, Artsakh) located in southwestern Azerbaijan and internationally recognised as part of that nation.
