Wally Sarkeesian
241 villages,
13,550 homes (30% of them more than a century old),
11,450 apartments,
60 kindergartens,
15 factories,
200 cultural houses,
9 cultural centers,
23 museums,
232 schools,
7 colleges,
4 universities, and 11 art schools.
Also left behind in Artsakh:
400 medieval cemeteries,
385 churches,
60 monastic complexes,
2,385 khachkars (stone-crosses),
5 reservoirs,
5 canals,
37 hydroelectric power plants, and
48 mines.
All surrendered to Azerbaijan — not through open battle, but through betrayal and the weakness of leadership.
Between September 19 and 29, 120,000 Artsakh Armenians fled their ancestral homeland. This was not just the displacement of a people, but the uprooting of a civilization with millennia of continuous history.
Throughout history, Artsakh had never been emptied of Armenians. Today, for the first time, that rupture has become reality — a wound unprecedented in our nation’s story.