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Battle for Nagorno-Karabakh escalates: 30 more killed
MOSCOW. Feb 17: Armenians and Azerbaijanis escalated their battle for con trol of the Nagorno Karabukh region, firing hundreds of rockets and sheila that left more than 30 dead or wounded, news agencies said Sunday. reports AP.
The two sides also engaged tn a war of words over whether troops of the former Soviet army are involved In the tight Ing
The regional capital of Stepanakert came under fire for the third straight day Sunday. Among the reported dead were four people k(lled in the shelling of a rural hbapi-tal.
Battles and heavy shelling were also reported Saturday In the city of Khodzhaly an Azrr baljanl stronghold In Nagorno-Karabakh. Casually figures were dot yei available, the ITAR-Tass News Agency said.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been battling sporadically
for control of Nagorno Karuluikii for four years, killing hundreds of people. The mountainous region is popu-lalt-d mainly by Armenians, but Is located within Azerbaijan and lias been under Aze rbaijani control siiHx 1923.
Stepanakert came under heavy fire Friday night and all day Saturday, with more than 80 shells arid mlsMk-s Infik-I-Ing ' llw worst damage since Ilie fighting began. ITAR Toss said The news agency reported Sunday night that over 300 misslk-s had been fired at the city in the past 24 hours, destroying more than 50 houses*
ITAR-Tass sold more than 30 people had been killed Or wounded over the weekend
Fighting has Intensified a I me January 29 wlien an Azerbaijani helicopter crashed, killing about 40 people. Including women and chrtdren The Azerbaijani government actUM-d Armenia of downing tlic iHlieopler with a lieal-
sceklng missile: Armenta denied the cliargc.
A propaganda war was also escalating. wilh Azerbaijan charging that Armenian militants are being aided by soldiers of the former Soviet army In battles to capture villages controlled by Azerbaijani forces.
Azerbaijan television claimed last week that the bodies of 1 I Soviet sb Idlers were found after a battle in the village of Malybelli. where Azerbaijani artillery Is concentrated. The television said tin discovery proved involvement of lite Soviet military
ITAR-Tass onotcd the Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary press service as saying Azerbaijan s mass media lias been persistently spreading false Information about the In-volvctlteni of servicemen from the Stepanakert regiment In military operations on the side of I he Armenian self-defense forces.'
The (K-w* agency quoted an officer of the Commonwealth of liKicpcndcni SluU-s military regiment as saying tin- 11 reportedly dead soldiers were actually deserters who were still alive.
Maj Gen Nikolai Popov, commander of the CIS armed ftrm In Nagorna-Karubakh. said that such television statement* are regarded al the local level as an attempt to disc redit the armed forces in tire eyes of the civilian population and aggravate inter-ethnic relations.
A new attempt to settle the conflict will take place Thursday tn Moscow with a meeting between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Last week. Armenia (’resident Levon Ter-Petrostan called for either a commonwealth peacekeeping force in the region or the deployment of United Nation* peacekeepers-