Almost all Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have fled, Armenia says

The exodus came after Azerbaijan attacked Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19th and ordered the breakaway region’s militants to disarm.

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00:00 Almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have now fled to Armenia, the government there

00:05 says, many to the city of Goris here on the border.

00:09 The exodus came after Azerbaijan attacked the region on September 19 and ordered the

00:14 Armenian fighters there to disarm.

00:18 Armenians now ask the EU to send medical supplies and help them put up temporary shelters for

00:23 the refugees.

00:25 Its Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has described it as ethnic cleansing, but Azerbaijan insists

00:31 it's nothing to do with forced relocation and that it would have guaranteed their security

00:35 if they'd remained.

00:37 Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has been knocking down abandoned military outposts in Nagorno-Karabakh

00:43 and seizing weapons there.

00:45 And in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, protesters remain angry that the government was unable

00:51 to prevent the collapse of the Armenian government in the breakaway region.

00:57 (whooshing)