Armenia Home to 300,000 Refugees

Chance are you didn't know about this, because I surely did not:

...the number of refugees across the globe reached 10 million in 2006...and including more than 300,000 in Armenia. The Iraqi crisis is cited as the main reason for the increase.

About 400,000 people took refugee in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh because of the Karabakh conflict that broke out in 1988...some 360,000 came to Armenia from Azerbaijan, and the other 40,000 came from other republics of the former USSR...many of the refugees abandoned Armenia because of heavy social conditions.

Two important points to realize:

1) Armenia has a disproportionately large population of refugees, accounting for 3% of all the world's refugees in a country that comprises 0.05% of the world population.

2) Refugees found it difficult to remain in Armenia and eventually dispersed shortly after the Nagorno-Karabakh war ended.

I am shocked at both of these conclusions.

Source: Armenia Now

Azerbaijan Planning to Resettle Shahumyan

Bet you didn't see this one coming.

Balayan said he had obtained copies of an Azeri government decision and a decree signed by the government of this covert plan. The documents clearly delegate responsibilities to various Azeri ministries and government organizations to steer the plan.

The plan calls for resettling 30,000 to 35,000 Azeris in Shahumyan, which was once home to 21,000 Armenians who were either massacred or forcibly evacuated from the region during the Nagorno-Karabakh movement.

What's next?

Source: ArmenPress