Lachin: Life In No Man’s Land
Photographs © Onnik James Krikorian 2001-3.
ARTICLES ABOUT LACHIN
LIFE IN NO MAN’S LAND
Following a 1994 ceasefire agreement that put fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh on hold, there are also disagreements on the return of lands surrounding Nagorno Karabakh too.
First published 2001
LACHIN CONFRONTS A DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS
First published 2006
LACHIN: THE EMPTYING LANDS
The local residents of Suarassy seem oblivious to the hidden danger as they herd cattle down a road known to have been mined during the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of the early Nineties. Despite the mangled military lorry rusting in a ditch to one side, none of their cows have so far detonated seven anti-tank mines still believed to be buried underneath, so they reckon the road is safe.
First published 2006
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Some Positive News from Pankisi, Georgia
Radio Way (ICK/CCA), Duisi, Georgia © Onnik James Krikorian 2016 It’s not often there’s some positive news coming out of Pankisi, better known these days as the birth place of Tarkhan Batirashvili, aka ISIS’ Abu Omar al-Shishani, but some does exist. In addition to...
The Street Kids of Tbilisi
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty has just published a photo story as part of my long time personal project on social vulnerability in Armenia and Georgia. It’s been going on since 2000 or 2001 and I’ve written countless articles and produced many more photo projects that at some point I need to upload to this site. Anyway, for now the RFE/RL photo story.
UNODC Counter-Terrorism Expert Meeting, Vienna
The text of my presentation for a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Expert Group Meeting on Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Vienna, Austria, 16-18 November 2015.