In Caucasus enclave, Internet puts young in touch with outside world
Sun Jun 19, 7:29 AM ET
STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan (AFP) - For 15-year-old Albert, who lives in Nagorno Karabakh, the Internet is an exciting venue for meeting people of his own age from any nation but one, Azerbaijan, which remains dead against any moves to have the enclave recognised as an independent state.
"I have never seen a single Azeri in my life, but I consider them enemies. If it hadn't been for the war with them, my father would not have died and our house would not have been destroyed," said the teenager from Nagorno Karabakh, a mostly ethnic Armenian enclave that lies within Azerbaijan.
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Just over a year old when the fighting erupted, Albert remembers nothing of the bombings and underground shelters where families sought refuge.
But the loss of his father and the family home have led him to passionately oppose any Azeri attempt to retake his homeland.
Continued border clashes and ideological sniping make laying past grievances to rest all the harder.
We live very well without Azerbaijan and to be honest I can never understand those politicians who want to see us subject to Azeri rule again," said another young resident, Narek, a 17-year-old economics student.
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[...] Nagorno Karabakh has in recent years taken on more of a stable appearance. Whereas its young people used to have to travel to the Armenian capital Yerevan for higher education, institutes have sprung up in Nagorno Karabakh's main city of Stepanakert, offering their own degrees.
The political landscape has also grown more diverse.
While young people alot a healthy amount of time to the main entertainment of evening walks and bar-hopping, the weeks prior to Sunday's poll found many of them vigorously discussing the programmes of the seven parties vying for parliamentary seats, and some joining in the campaigning.
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STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan (AFP) - For 15-year-old Albert, who lives in Nagorno Karabakh, the Internet is an exciting venue for meeting people of his own age from any nation but one, Azerbaijan, which remains dead against any moves to have the enclave recognised as an independent state.
"I have never seen a single Azeri in my life, but I consider them enemies. If it hadn't been for the war with them, my father would not have died and our house would not have been destroyed," said the teenager from Nagorno Karabakh, a mostly ethnic Armenian enclave that lies within Azerbaijan.
[...]
Just over a year old when the fighting erupted, Albert remembers nothing of the bombings and underground shelters where families sought refuge.
But the loss of his father and the family home have led him to passionately oppose any Azeri attempt to retake his homeland.
Continued border clashes and ideological sniping make laying past grievances to rest all the harder.
We live very well without Azerbaijan and to be honest I can never understand those politicians who want to see us subject to Azeri rule again," said another young resident, Narek, a 17-year-old economics student.
[...]
[...] Nagorno Karabakh has in recent years taken on more of a stable appearance. Whereas its young people used to have to travel to the Armenian capital Yerevan for higher education, institutes have sprung up in Nagorno Karabakh's main city of Stepanakert, offering their own degrees.
The political landscape has also grown more diverse.
While young people alot a healthy amount of time to the main entertainment of evening walks and bar-hopping, the weeks prior to Sunday's poll found many of them vigorously discussing the programmes of the seven parties vying for parliamentary seats, and some joining in the campaigning.
[...]
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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