At the end of February, the Vestnik Kavkaza film crew visited the liberated territories of Azerbaijan - Aghdam, Fizuli, Jebrayil and Zangilan, on the Iranian and Armenian border, filming the scale of the destruction carried out by the occupying Armenian Armed Forces.

Vestnik Kavkaza presents the first film shot during this trip by TV and radio journalist Gia Saralidze.

"The Karabakh conflict is the oldest in the post-Soviet space. In Russia, only experts know about the causes, course and results of the war, and their opinions are sometimes dramatically different. When the Second Karabakh war began last autumn, the opinions of journalists, experts, commentators were also based not on facts and analysis, but on emotions and personal preferences and ethnicity," Saralidze says.

According to him, one of the most unknown topics for the general public was the issue of seven regions of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia: “The lands that have never been part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region and make up more than 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan have been occupied by Armenian forces for almost 30 years. Little was known about the fate of these cities and villages, so when the opportunity to visit these regions arrived, our film crew went to Azerbaijan."

The first stop of our trip was the Aghdam region. Aghdam, which is located on the former contact line of the opposing sides, is translated as "white roof", but not a single roof remained in this city, just as the city itself was only left in ruins. From the roof of the mosque, which was used to keep the cattle, the ruins of a hotel, a drama theater, a bread museum are clearly visible. The whole city was plundered, buildings were taken apart for materials. Both grape fields and villages are empty. Dead land, a lot of ruins, not a single normal house, no animals, no people - it's like "Caucasian Hiroshima".

 

Source - vestnikkavkaza.net

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18.03.2021 08:14