Young cadets rest in the dorms of the military high-school in Stepanakert.
Young soldiers observe the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
A tank destroyed in the 1993 conflict near the northern border of Nagorno-Karabakh. Two soldiers were killed in this attack.
Young soldiers commemorates the victims of the Armenian Genocide the night before the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is officially observed.
Young cadets attend physical lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert.
Young soldiers iron their military uniform in the military high-school in Stepanakert.
Young soldiers engaged over the frontline in the Armenia-backed separatist region of eastern Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
A bombed-out house in the village of Talish, located next to the border with Azerbaijan. Azeri soldiers entered the village during the April War in 2016, killed four old men and they brutally cut off their ears. The village is now unhabited.
Young soldiers play in the Hadrut region just a few miles from the border with Iran.
Young cadets attend lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert
Young cadets have lunch in the mess hall of the military high-school in Stepanakert.
Young soldiers commemorates the victims of the Armenian Genocide the night before the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is officially observed.
Young soldiers play football in Hadrowt village next to Iranian border.
A bombed-out house in the village of Talish, located next to the border with Azerbaijan. Azeri soldiers entered the village during the April War in 2016, killed four old men and they brutally cut off their ears. The village is now unhabited.
Young cadets attend english lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert.
Last year, clashes in a decades-old conflict between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces in the Caucasus region motivated a number of young women and girls to pick up arms.
Young soldier plays with a puppy over the frontline in the Armenia-backed separatist region of eastern Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Veteran soldiers observe the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
Young cadets have lunch in the mess hall of the military high-school in Stepanakert.
Young cadets attend training in the military high-school in Spenakert.
Young cadets attend lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert.
Last year, clashes in a decades-old conflict between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces in the Caucasus region motivated a number of young women and girls to pick up arms.
The mountains at the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
Young soldiers engaged over the frontline in the Armenia-backed separatist region of eastern Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Young cadets rest in the dorms of the military high-school in Stepanakert.
Young cadets attend physical lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert.
The politicians of the Nagorno-Karabakh government observe the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
Young cadets attend geography lesson in the military high-school in Spenakert
Young female cadets in the military high-school in Spenakert.
Last year, clashes in a decades-old conflict between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces in the Caucasus region motivated a number of young women and girls to pick up arms.
A young soldier injuried during the April War last year. Above the office's desk, a portrait of a 1993 war-martyr
A bombed-out house in the village of Talish, located next to the border with Azerbaijan. Azeri soldiers entered the village during the April War in 2016, killed four old men and they brutally cut off their ears. The village is now unhabited.
A soldier and his family pray at Gandzasar monastery before getting back to the frontline.
All men and women of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic are part of the army, but we can not say how many soldiers are now operative over the frontline” explains an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stepanakert.
Soldiers are engaged in defending their positions over the frontline, although in May 1994 an official ceasefire was also signed by Armenia and negotiations are taking place in Moscow. The ceasefire is regularly broken with casualties on both sides.
The conflict started in 1988 and escalated into full-scale war when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Armenians went to war with Azerbaijan, with backing from Armenia. The conflict left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced.
In 2017 Clashes between the Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh were the worst violence the region has seen since the ethnic war over the territory ended in 1994. Azerbaijan boasted of “destroying” 170 opposing troops, while sources from the Armenian Karabakhi forces estimated they had killed 300 Azeri soldiers.
In the village of Talish, Azeri forces entered the houses killing four old-men and they brutally cut off their ears. Traces of those raids are still visible walking through bombed-out houses, shops and a destroyed school. Locals were transferred to near villages, where they found relatives.
The border territory is now full of military camps and bases. In the capital Stepanakert a military academy substituted the traditional high-school. Male and female teenagers aged 13-18 are learning maths, history and english after physical exercises and marches.
That forgotten war seems to be still not finished today.
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