Original upload date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:43:51 GMT
(26 Oct 2020) Dozens of Lebanese-Armenian held a protest Monday outside the Turkish embassy in a north Beirut suburb demanding an end to attacks by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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rs waving flags of Nagorno-Karabakh, set the flags of Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan on fire.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994.
The current fighting that started on Sept. 27 already has killed hundreds, marking the biggest escalation in the conflict since the war's end.
The fighting is being closely followed by Lebanon's large ethnic Armenian population.
Some have already travelled to join the fight, according to members of the community.
Others have been sending money and aid and have been campaigning in the media in support of ethnic Armenians in the enclave, which they refer to as Artsakh.
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