Bordering war

According to Golos Armenii (Via Groong), Azerbaijan's new strategy is to wear down Armenian forces with a localised war of attrition. This involves pushing forward in places and firing on Armenian farmers, etc.

Since May 1994 the cease-fire regime has been broken hundreds of times, as a result of which not only has agricultural work been frozen, but many of our compatriots have died. By the way, while on the Armenian side it is mainly civilians, peasants, who have died, on the Azerbaijani side servicemen have predominated. It is not difficult to guess the logic of these official statistics: Armenian arable farmers and stockbreeders have become the victims of Azeri diversionary sorties and the fact that the [Armenian] army stops these sorties has led to such lamentable results for the rank-and-file soldiers in the enemy's army. The fact that all these years Azerbaijan has been the initiator of cross-border exchanges of fire stems from this statistical material: it is Baku alone, not Yerevan or Stepanakert, that constantly talks about resuming the war, as it is Azerbaijan that is displeased with today's disposition of forces and the de facto positioning of the borders

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Posted by Matt on June 20, 2004 | TrackBack | Email to a friend