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Kupreyev was struck by how petty some of the conflicts were. "Once," he says, "the Azerbaijanis were offended that their republic's flag had been taken down by the locals from a building in Stepanakert ((the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh)). Put up the flag again, they said, have the Armenians offer a public apology, and we will end our blockade and let supplies through. Then Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh refused to receive food from Azerbaijan. If it was Azerbaijani margarine, they wouldn't take it. They wouldn't accept eggs from Baku. Our chairman finally told them it wasn...
...official press reported that in one incident alone in Armenia's Artashat region, some 3,000 people raided police headquarters and seized 106 automatic weapons, 30 carbines and more than 3,200 cartridges. In the Azerbaijani city of Kirovabad, extremists stormed the local agricultural institute, capturing 80 automatic guns, two machine guns and 27 rifles with bayonets...
Most mysterious was the appearance of orange helicopters without identification marks that suddenly materialized from the hills of the Shaumyan and Khanlar regions outside Nagorno-Karabakh and strafed Azerbaijani villages with gunfire and even rockets. The government daily Izvestia ominously reported that there was evidence of preparations to smuggle a large batch of weapons and ammunition across the border from Iran...
Although most of the 220,000 Armenians living in Baku fled after the 1988 pogrom in Sumgait, up to 20,000 Armenians still remained. But even as their numbers shrank, Azerbaijani refugees flooded the city. Most of them were unemployed farmers and goatherds who claimed they had been chased from Armenia. These 130,000 new Azerbaijani settlers transformed the once cosmopolitan capital into a city ringed with slums and squatter districts. Their simmering rage against the Armenians triggered the riots that led to last week's battles...
...Some Azerbaijanis have lately begun to demand a separate state for themselves and their ethnic kin on the other side of the Iranian border. Because such a state would violate the integrity of two existing countries, those demands are setting the stage for an unlikely, if not necessarily unholy, alliance between the Communists in Moscow and the Islamic fundamentalists in Tehran. Opposing Azerbaijani nationalism would align Washington with both...