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A few Azerbaijanis are still left in Karabakh-Nagorno. But because of the concern that their families in Azerbaijan would be persecuted, their names are kept secret for a long time. 

Irina Kovalchuk writes the aforesaid in her article published at Segodnya.ua and devoted to her trip to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh).

“They had arranged a meeting for me with a 60-year-old Azerbaijani women [living in the NKR]. Her Armenian husband had died in the first days of the [Karabakh] war. The woman had not left [Karabakh] because of her children, who consider themselves Armenian,” Kovalchuk writes.

“Sometimes I forget that I am Azerbaijani. But a person that does not respect and love his nation cannot respect and love another nation. [But] now, Karabakh’s independence must be achieved.

“For me, the important thing is my children, and I have stayed here for their sake.

“The local Armenians have always protected me, and if ours [i.e., the Azerbaijanis] come, they would first shoot me as a traitor,” the Azerbaijani woman told Kovalchuk.     

The Azerbaijani woman, however, no longer dreams of ever being able to stroll along her Azerbaijani capital city Baku.

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