‘Azerbaijan is hungry for land’: Armenians fear country will seek to grab more territory

The view from the Armenian village of Tegh of an Azerbaijani border guard post on the road leading to recently seized Nagorno-Karabakh region. Photograph: Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters

The beehives were in no man’s land. After the border clash near his village in April, Geram drove down to the fields where his family has been farming for decades and kept a small apiary.

But when he got near, he heard gunshots. The Azerbaijanis were firing at him from their new positions on the surrounding hilltops. He ran back to his car and never returned.