For the second time in his life, Samvel Alaverdyan is fleeing Azerbaijan.
Born to an ethnic Armenian family in the capital Baku, Alaverdyan first left as a child in 1989 when violence broke out between Azeris and Armenians over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.itself, where Azerbaijan mounted a lightning offensive last week to end three decades of de facto independence for the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who lived there.gathering their belongings in plastic bags and boarding cars and buses that are jamming the only road from Karabakh into Armenia.
Azeri neighbours drove the family to the border in order to protect them. "They were good people," Samvel said. The neighbours also sent on their possessions, and Samvel and his family moved to Karabakh.In Stepanakert, the Alaverdyans lived in a four-room private house with an allotment. That helped them survive harsh food shortages that gripped Karabakh during a nine-month Azerbaijani blockade that started last December.
The family left Stepanakert overnight on Sunday in their Nissan people carrier, having heard that a column was leaving the city. Now they plan to move to the town of Charentsavan, close to Yerevan, where they have relatives.
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