Decade Long Dispute in Nagorno-Karabakh

 

Nagorno-Karabakh has been a long disputed part on Caucasus region. After the World War I, The Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the New Soviet ruler as part of their divide and rule policy in this region set up the Nagorno-Karabakh an autonomous region where lived ethnic Armenian majority within the Soviet Socialist .

The name Karabakh derived from Turkish and Persian that means “Black Garden”. On the other hand Nagorony originated from Russian meaning “Mountainous”. Thus Nagorno-Karabakh is mountainous Karabakh which was the district of former Soviet Azerbaijan .Historically this region was inhabited by people known as Kura-Araxes civilization.

In 1988 when the Soviet rule was started to exempt, the Azerbaijani Troops and Armenian Separatists had begun a hideous war and left de-facto independent state in the hand of ethnic Armenian when the truce was signed in 1994. Unfortunately they failed to ensure permanent peace resolution. The region became divided into Christian and Muslim Turkic and Persian influence.

In 1980 when Soviet Union had been starting to lose his power, the Armenian Azeri fraction embroiled in violence. But the region’s Parliament voted to merge with Armenia. The violence became so gristly that estimated 25,000 people have lost their lives. They had also misappropriated the land and had created a buffer zone linking between Karabak and Armenia.

After the divided of Soviet Union in 1991, The Karabakh region proclaimed itself as an independent state. But it has not been recognised yet elsewhere. And the region started to submerge in full scale war. In 1994 a peace deal was signed which was mediated by Russia –brokered leaving Karabakh as well as swathes of Azeri territory around the enclave in Armenian hands. But a referendum declared illegitimate by Azerbaijan. After that several peace talk has been organised by both Armenian and Azerbaijani president. But ultimate solution has not to be accomplished yet.