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Demographic problems in Nagorno-Karabakh

SHUSHI, NAGORNO-KARABAKH - on Wednesday, May 18, 2016: A view of an appartment-block, used for families internally displaced from the border regions due to the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Military operations continued to affect the civilian population and numbers concerning refugees and internally displaced persons are disputed on both sides. The total 300,000 estimated number of Armenians left their homes in Azerbaijan, 30,000 of them were resettled in N-K and the Lachin district. 800,000 Azerbaijanis are on the exil, including around 200,000 refugees from Armenia and around 600.000 internally displaced persons from the zone of conflict. This situation creates demographic problems, the population of the area has shrunk by almost 70% in the past two decades. During Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, authorities evacuated approximately 65,000 households from the border area, with many later returning. In 2008, the authorities approved a program to assist in the resettlement of over 600 displaced families during the NK conflict; however, there was no funding to implement the program. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

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