‘Staying, for us, is impossible’

An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh looks on from a car as he and his family arrive in Goris, a town in the Syunik region of Armenia. — AP

THE exodus began late last Sunday, a trickle of vehicles that soon turned into an unceasing stream flowing along the mountain highway above Nagorno-Karabakh toward the Armenian border.

By early Monday morning, almost a week after the Azerbaijani military took back Nagorno-Karabakh in a 24-hour blitz, more than 4,850 ethnic Armenians had left the enclave and crossed into Armenia, the Armenian government said.