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00:00 A steady stream of vehicles make their way along the jam-packed Lachin corridor,
00:04 the only road out of Nagorno-Karabakh towards Armenia.
00:08 These tens of thousands of refugees face an uncertain future,
00:12 after Azerbaijan reclaimed full control of the breakaway separatist region
00:17 in a lightning offensive last week.
00:18 "I would like to return to Nagorno-Karabakh.
00:22 I feel that after all these years, if we close the gap a little bit,
00:26 we could find a common understanding."
00:28 "It was tough there, but it was our land for generations, Armenian land.
00:35 And now we're here, homeless."
00:37 It's a long and mountainous journey.
00:40 This family fled with just the basic necessities,
00:44 settling here in a motel in the Armenian town of Goris.
00:47 Ruzana lost her husband in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan three years ago.
00:53 She says she couldn't risk staying in Nagorno-Karabakh for her children's safety.
00:58 "There's no way to break us down, because we are a strong, proud nation.
01:05 We can barely accept that we're going through difficulties,
01:08 but we couldn't sacrifice our children's lives."
01:11 More than a third of the enclave's population have already fled,
01:17 and one of the biggest movements of people in the region since the fall of the Soviet Union.