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Below: Tent camps like this one sprang up when hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees had to flee Karabakh and its adjacent regions, especially in the summer of 1993. Five to eight thousand people lived in each camp (Photo: Litvin).
A young refugee girl makes mud bricks in order to replace the tent that her family has been living in for the past three years, 1996 (Photo: Litvin).
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Totally uprooted and exhausted, Azerbaijani refugees of the Karabakh war fled the advancing Armenian troops. Nearly 1 million Azerbaijanis were uprooted because of the war. The lucky ones were able to bring out their belongings. Many fled for their lives with only a few moments' notice. Photo: Oleg Litvin, 1993.
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People life here because they have no other choice.. because there isnt room in Azerbaijan anymore.. because there are no more buildings.. because Azerbaijan was not prepared to provide basic needs for a million refugees..
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Above: The United Nations and numerous other humanitarian organizations provided survival essentials of food and shelter for tens of thousands of Azerbaijani families who fled their homes and villages in the Karabakh and the neighboring regions when Armenian military forces invaded Azerbaijan's territory [1992-94],. Azerbaijan's refugees - nearly 10 years later - still yearn to return home. Photo: Refugee camp near Yevlakh. by R. Redmond, UNHCR, 1994.
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a very small proportion of the refugees lifes in tents.. most refugees life inm school, hospitals, unused factories, self made houses, boxes and railway coaches...
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Photo: Children in Sabirabad Tent Camp No. 1 which accomodates 12,000 Azerbaijani
refugees Today, most of these refugees live in mud brick single room structures that
they built with their own hands. Photo: Oleg Litvin.