ArmInfo.Ambassador Edmon Marukyan posted the following message on his X (former Twitter) account:
"In an interview to Deutsche Welle (DW), the assistant of the President of Azerbaijan claims that people are leaving Nagorno-Karabakh "in a free manner". I want to understand, is there anyone in the world who believes this yet another fake narrative of Azerbaijan?
1. People are leaving because they are attacked by the Azerbaijani military.
2. People are leaving because their cities and villages are occupied by the armed forces of Azerbaijan.
3. People are leaving because neither the international community nor Azerbaijan guarantee their rights and security.
4. People are leaving because for 10 months Azerbaijan kept 120,000 people, including 30,000 children, in a blockade and starvation as part of its ethnic cleansing policy.
5. People are leaving because no one has been punished for the war crimes of Azerbaijan in 2016-2020 and there is no guarantee that beheaders are not roaming freely in those areas to behead new people.
I hope it's more than clear why people leave..."