Word: stepanakert
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...turmoil centered once again on the largely Armenian enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan since 1923. Trouble began when Azerbaijani attacked a busload of Armenian students near the regional capital of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. Fighting spread swiftly as roving bands set fire to houses and cars. Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani battled with knives and guns in the worst outbreak of violence since 32 people died last February in riots in Sumgait, an Azerbaijani city. As Soviet troops arrived to restore order, authorities imposed a military curfew. The Soviet news agency TASS said one Armenian had been killed...
...sealed off Lenin Square, which houses the Armenian Supreme Soviet Building. Three tanks circled the square and then drove off. Elsewhere, troops set up roadblocks on streets leading to and from Yerevan while others waited in armored personnel carriers at the edge of the city. "The violence is in Stepanakert," said an irate citizen. "Why do they need tanks here...
...soldiers carried machine guns and rode around Nagorno-Karabakh's main city, Stepanakert, in tanks and armored personnel carriers, said the resident, who identified herself in a telephone interview only as a worker for the state broadcasting agency Gostelradio...
Meanwhile, Soviet television reported that factories remain closed in Nagorno-Karabakh and that troops continue to patrol the capital, Stepanakert. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nation's highest executive body, is expected to consider the Nagorno-Karabakh issue this week, but so far the Kremlin has shown no inclination to redraw borders...
...announcement of that decision two weeks ago sparked rallies and school boycotts in Stepanakert. Within days the protest had spread to Yerevan, where, witnesses claimed, hundreds of thousands of citizens were congregating each day in front of the Opera House, chanting slogans like "One nation, one republic!" and demanding a special session of the Armenian Republic's legislature to reconsider the question of annexation...