Potential Powder Keg Could Erupt Against Armenia As World ‘Distracted’ by Hamas Terror in Israel
With the Israel-Hamas war continuing to intensify, another crisis has entirely slipped from the headlines: the expulsion of 120,000 ethnic and Christian Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, a small, landlocked region between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications for Christian Solidarity International, joined CBN Digital to provide an update on the heartbreaking situation. “As of two weeks ago, virtually the entire Armenian population has left Nagorno-Karabakh, so this land that was part of the ancient Armenian Christian Homeland for thousands of years is now empty,” he said. “It really is a complete ethnic cleansing of the entire region.”
As reported last month, tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians escaped the region, flooding into Armenia after Azerbaijan attacked and overtook the land; the government of Nagorno-Karabakh also disbanded before the exodus with fears of Azerbaijani abuses driving the chaos. According to Veldkamp, the pain and suffering facing these ethnic Armenians is nowhere near over.
“What really concerns us now is that there are hundreds if not thousands of people that are still missing and the Armenian authorities are trying to put lists together,” he said. “But the evacuation was so chaotic — people were running away from bombs, people were separated.”
Another factor surrounding the contentious situation is fears Azerbaijan could invade Armenia itself. “The threat of another war is very real, especially now that the world is distracted again with the crisis in Israel,” Veldkamp said, noting some worry an attack could come sooner rather than later. “Azerbaijan has been attacking Armenians for seven years straight and no one has ever [put] consequences on them for it, so why would they stop now?” Watch him sound the alarm.
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