Azerbaijan Refugees Vow 'Great Return' to Karabakh

Painful return: Gulbeniz Jafarova, 55, cries at the grave of her brother who died defending Aghdam from Armenian separatists, who held the city for three decades Tofik BABAYEV AFP

Ali Hasanov looked over the overgrown ruins of his hometown in Nagorno-Karabakh and vowed to return and rebuild it.

"Whatever time it might take, we will return to Aghdam," said Hasanov. "We want to live here... we belong here."