More than a third of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians flee, says Yerevan

Refugees fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, including a woman with a head wound, wait to pass near a Red Cross registration centre in Goris, Armenia [Alain Jocard/AFP]

More than a third of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh have fled the region as part of an exodus triggered by a military offensive which brought the enclave back under Azerbaijan’s control.

The Armenian government said on Wednesday that about 47,000 “forcibly displaced” people have moved from the long-troubled region to Armenia.