Aida Avagyan and her four children were evacuated from the village of Aghavno in Nagorno-Karabakh last August, just days before it was handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a Russia-brokered ceasefire declaration.
She relocated her family to the town of Goris in southern Armenia, where she opened a small guesthouse and began hosting people evacuated from Nagorno-Karabakh by the International Committee of the Red Cross during Azerbaijan’s blockade of the region.
Following Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh this September, Avagyan scrambled to host other people forcibly displaced from their homes.
She sat down with CivilNet to share her story of displacement and her hopes for the future.
