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A ‘frozen conflict’ that could boil over 9 mars 2012

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International Herald Tribune (USA) Friday, March 9, 2012, p. 6

By Lawrence Scott Sheets *

One frigid day nearly 19 years ago, I found myself standing along a muddy, rutted road in the foothills of Azerbaijan’s 3,000 meter-high Murov mountain range. Hundreds of Azerbaijani internally displaced persons – from the strategic Kelbajar region – were arriving on foot, some nearly frozen to death after a multiday trek through the icy mountain passes. (suite…)