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Deal with Azerbaijan? Armenian police detain protesters at rally

Armenian police have detained more than 200 anti-government protesters who tried to block roads in the capital Yerevan, protesting against the handover of territory to Azerbaijan as part of a peace deal.

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09:29 - 27/05/24 por Lusa

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"226 citizens were detained for refusing to obey the police's legal orders," the Armenian Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Last week, Armenia transferred four border villages to Azerbaijan that it had taken in the 1990s, as part of a process of normalising bilateral relations.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars, the first in the 1990s, which Armenia won and which left 30,000 dead.

The second conflict, in 2020, was won by Azerbaijan and left more than six thousand dead.

After the Armenian defeat in 2020, the government in Yerevan was forced to cede territory in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that the Armenians had controlled for 30 years.

In September 2023, Baku launched a lightning offensive that forced the Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh to capitulate and took control of the entire territory.

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