Azerbaijan’s new checkpoint in the Lachin corridor near the border with Armenia has left four Armenian villages in Nagorno-Karabakh – Lisagor, Yeghtsahogh, Mets Shen and Hin Shen – in a double blockade. When self-styled Azerbaijani environmental activists set up a roadblock on a different section of the corridor last December, the residents of those four villages were cut off from the rest of Nagorno-Karabakh, but were able to travel to Armenia. But since the checkpoint was set up late last month, the four villages have been left isolated from Armenia as well.
Villages in Artsakh face a ‘double blockade’
