Death of a dream for Armenian diaspora

Lebanese Armenian holds a flag of Nagorno-Karabakh during a protest outside the Azerbaijani embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world. Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians on Thursday protested outside the Azerbajani Embassy in Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

THE swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops at the end of last month and the exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world.

Traumatised by a widely acknowledged genocide a century ago, they fear the erasure of what they consider a central and beloved part of their historic homeland.