Armenia 2006. HiT summary
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The boundaries, reach and regional importance of Armenia have ebbed and flowed over the centuries, but the current borders were drawn by Soviet cartographers and have never been fully accepted. The most significant example of the difficulties caused by the given borders is the conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. As a consequence of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, 360 000 refugees fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, with an additional 70 000 people living in bordering regions becoming internally displaced (1). This added to the devastating impact of the 1988 Spitak earthquake that was estimated to have left 25 000 people dead and 400 000 homeless. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates, by the end of the 1990s there were approximately 280 000 ethnic Armenians registered as refugees; however, 60 000 of them, mostly men, are believed to have left the country (2).
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