Swiss MP hopes world will protect right of forcibly displaced Artsakh  Armenians 

ArmInfo.  Swiss MP Erich Vontobel expressed hope that the world will speak out for the right of return of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh to their homes.  "A short trip to Armenia, day 2: turning to Artsakh (the Armenian name for  Nagorno-Karabakh) through the Lachin corridor. Someone wrote: "You  are forever in our hearts."

I hope the world will finally speak out for the right of return of  those displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh," he wrote on his Twitter  microblog (X), accompanying his post with a photo of a road sign  pointing to Artsakh.

On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan, under the pretext of an  "anti-terrorist operation," committed another act of aggression  against Artsakh. As a result of the enemy aggression, hundreds of  Artsakh residents were injured, and more than 200 people were  reported killed, including civilians. On September 20, Artsakh fell.   Azerbaijan began the violent subjugation of the NKR. In addition,  late in the evening of September 20, it became known that Azerbaijan  deliberately fired at two vehicles of the Russian peacekeeping  contingent, killing 6 people, including the deputy commander of the  RMK. 

On September 22, the process of abolishing the Artsakh Defense Army  began. During search operations from September 21 to 24, the NKR  Ministry of Internal Affairs found the bodies of 105 Artsakh  residents, including brutally murdered children and old people.  Today, Artsakh is completely de-Armenianized, its entire indigenous  population of over 100 thousand people was forced to flee to Armenia  under the threat of physical violence. Since the enemy aggression  that began in the fall of 2020, which in September 2023 ended with  the complete ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, over 150 thousand Artsakh  residents have become homeless.