“Nagorno Karabakh lies at the centre of a long-running geopolitical conflict, what Kipling dubbed ‘the Great Game,’” Christian Solidarity International president Dr John Eibner said. “’The Great Game’ is a power competition for the vast, strategically important, predominantly Turkic Muslim territory stretching from Anatolia to Xinjiang province in western China.”

In November, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia agreed to a ceasefire after fighting started between Azerbaijan and Armenia in late September. Under the agreement, displaced families are allowed to return home.

“The Armenians have long been among the biggest losers in the Great Game,” Eibner said. “The most recent six-week war is simply an ongoing process of genocide. Official responses in Britain to the war of Azerbaijan and its allies against the world’s oldest surviving Christian nation have tended to be low-key ritual appeals for peace. For the Karabakhi Christians, there have been no demands for humanitarian military intervention.”

Shusa is home to one of the largest Armenian Orthodox churches in the world, the Holy Savior Cathedral. In October, the cathedral, a monastic convent and three other churches were damaged from rocket fire from fighting.

Source: christianheadlines.com