Editor's Note.

This November, Azerbaijan-Armenia War has completed one year. The victory day was commemorated by Azerbaijan. The memories of the war and victory was reiterated on 8th November with events that were organized at the national, regional and global scale. The war was won against the Armenian aggression and triumph of independence was blessed to the occupied lands of Karabakh. The war that has resulted in the death and destruction across the region due to the illegal Armenian aggressive acts, was ended with a peace deal brokered by the Russia on November 10, 2020. The war begin in September 2020 and continued till 8th November and culminated with the Peace deal. Armenian aggression at Tovuz was the main reason behind the war.

This was a forceful imposition of a costly war by Armenia on Azerbaijan. However Azerbaijan stood with the international law and managed all the possibilities to resolve this issue through peaceful means. As the military intervention was imposed, Azerbaijan's brave countrymen and women had to respond and retaliate to the aggression. In September 2020, the conflict escalated again when Armenia military forces attacked Azerbaijan with full force and targeted Azerbaijani military posts and civilian population. During the conflict, Armenian forces committed grave violation of international law and human rights conventions by targeting civilians, business centers, worship places, and Azerbaijan, in return, amassed its forces against Armenia and launched counter offensive liberating several cities including hundreds of settlements and villages in Karabakh. The recent escalation is the result of Armenian aggression against Azerbaijanis settled in the Karabakh region.

In 2019, Armenia settled their nationals on lands of Azerbaijani people instigating demographic change, exploitation and depredation of natural and agricultural resources, alteration in the infrastructure, along with desecration of cultural and historical heritage. Even the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that Armenian nationals displaced Azerbaijani people leading to their departure and deaths. The number and intensity of attacks increased as Armenia launched a full scale offensive by September 27, 2020. The conflict ended on November 10, 2020 followed by a cease fire but it had been a...

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