A suspicious note apparently referring to an ongoing geopolitical conflict in the Caucasus region was found at a church in Watertown, Massachusetts, Monday morning, police said. The note discovered on a community board outside St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church and reported to police about 8 a.m. read, “Artsakh is Dead,” according to Watertown police. The note continued, “Karabakh is Azerbaijan,”…
A suspicious note apparently referring to an ongoing geopolitical conflict in the Caucasus region was found at a church in Watertown, Massachusetts, Monday morning, police said.
Artsakh is the name that local Armenians give to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has long been disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Ethnic Armenians were leaving the region Monday as the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the region. While Azerbaijan has pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in the region and restore supplies after a 10-month blockade, many local residents feared reprisals and said they were planning to leave for Armenia. The Armenian government said that 6,500 Nagorno-Karabakh residents had fled to Armenia as of Monday evening. Moscow said that Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh were assisting the evacuation.
"Please know that your police department will go to great lengths to ensure all community members feel welcome and safe in the City of Watertown," the department said in a statement, asking anyone with information about what happened to contact them at 617-972-6538 or by emailingBaljian said that the members of the church understand that Azerbaijan has prevailed in the conflict in the region, but"now the worry is, as happened in 1915, when the Turks tried to eliminate the...
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