Armenians see a new genocide taking place. Azerbaijan sees propaganda. - WP
Activists protest in front of the U.N. Office in Yerevan, Armenia, on Aug. 16. (Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images) The firsthand accounts are harrowing . There’s no food on shelves in stores. Children stand for hours in bread lines to help feed their families. Mothers walk for miles in search of cooking oil and other provisions. Electricity, gas and water are in short supply. Ambulances can’t whir into motion for lack of fuel. Clinics report a surge in miscarriages in pregnant women who are malnourished, anemic and consumed by stress. Such is the apparent state of the isolated and increasingly desperate ethnic Armenian enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh , whose 120,000 people are enduring what local authorities and a host of international experts describe as a blockade at the hands of Azerbaijan, the country within which the territory sits. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought multiple wars over Nagorno-Karabakh after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the advent of their independent natio