Khankendi, Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh deserted: The formerly ethnic Armenian enclave of NagornoKarabakh was left mostly empty this week after nearly all of its 120,000 Armenian residents fled to Armenia. Last week, Azerbaijan retook the breakaway territory after a rapid-fire military assault that killed some 200 people and left survivors fearing for their lives under Azeri rule. U.N. observers touring the region said at most a few hundred Armenians remain. “What is there left for the U.N. to monitor?” refugee Aren Harutyunyan asked The Guardian. “No one is there anymore, everyone is gone, it’s a ghost town.” The main city, formerly Stepanakert, will now go by its Azeri name, Khankendi. Armenia is struggling to resettle the refugees and has accused Azerbaijan of ethnic cleansing.