Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia says 100,000 refugees flee region

More than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia says.

It means that that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized the region last week.

Azerbaijan has said it wants to reintegrate the area and treat its residents as equals, but an Armenian spokesman said this was just a "lie".

Nagorno-Karabakh - recognised as part of Azerbaijan - had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades. read more