“The old soldiers spilled out of buses into a square, fired up by a desire to fight, and to die if necessary, in a new war with an old enemy — the Azerbaijanis.
“The arrival on Monday of hundreds of Armenian volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, was just one sign of old animosities blazing anew as the latest fighting entered its third day.
““I think this is war,” Lev Gevorkyan, 67, a farmer and a veteran of the last conflict…
““This land was never Azerbaijan,” he said. “And by the way, Azerbaijan is not even a country.”
“In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the defense minister, Zakir Gasanov, issued a statement threatening to begin a military assault on Stepanakert if Armenian forces continued what he characterized as shelling of residential areas.”
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