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Ongoing Projects: Karabakh: Մենք ենք մեր լեռները

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  • HALO Program Manager Yuri Shahramanyan spends a Sunday evening visiting the famous Papik Tatik {quote}We Are Our Mountains{quote} statue with his family on the outskirts of Stepanakert.
  • Syrian Refugee - Berdzor, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Female deminers - Vartanoush Asaturova and Vartiter Shaboyan
  • School - Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Marine Barsegyan and her family
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  • Cluster munitions clearance from the 4 Days War in between the villages of Nerkin Horatagh and Mokhratagh in Martakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
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  • Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Karen Mirzoyan and his younger brother Tigran.
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian enjoys a Saturday off with his family at his dacha in Achapniak, not too far from the HALO Trust HQ in Stepanakert.
  • The area around Gandzasar monastery, and especially around the cemetery, was cleared by HALO
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  • A young man walks to get water from a spring near Nor Kilikia village. HALO has cleared land that allows for water pipes to be run into the village, but before that, all water needed to be collected from this river.
  • Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Papik and Tatik - Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • A HALO Trust supervisor and deminer visit a family in Norashen village who lost their son in a cluster bomb accident.
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian makes a bouquet of thistle flowers in Govshatly village in the Hadrut region.
  • The mother of 14 year-old Gor Davidi Vanyan (I am a monster and have forgotten her name. Is it Anoush?), who was killed while playing with a SA 12.7 mm, sits in her home in Haterk village.
  • HALO deminer Vartiter Shaboyan is one of HALO's youngest deminers. Her work with HALO allows her to support her entire family of 12 brothers and sisters.
  • The Piryan family - father Roma, mother Nune, and children 13 year-old Merujan, 8 year-old Gita, and baby Anna live right on the edge of an anti-tank and anti-personnel minefield. The parents are constantly worried that their children will wander into the field while playing.
  • Papik and Tatik - Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Visit to homes that have been struck by GRAD and LAR-160 rockets during the Four Day War in the village of Nerkin Horatagh in Martakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
  • Children attend school in Tsaghkaberd village. The school serves children from both Tsaghkaberd and Maratuk villages, but the road between them was, until it was very recently cleared by HALO Trust, heavily mined - making the journey very difficult.
  • The Piryan family - father Roma, mother Nune, and children 13 year-old Merujan, 8 year-old Gita, and baby Anna live right on the edge of an anti-tank and anti-personnel minefield. The parents are constantly worried that their children will wander into the field while playing.
  • A schoolboy (I AM A MONSTER AND HAVE FORGOTTEN HIS NAME) leads the UXO team to a piece of ammunition that he found while picking flowers for his mother in the hills near Hadrut.
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian enjoys a Saturday off with his family at his dacha in Achapniak, not too far from the HALO Trust HQ in Stepanakert.
  • Beneficiaries Arthur Arzumanian and his partner Gohar tend their orchard in Shelly, during a visit from friend and HALO Supervisor Melord Aslanian.
  • A large family in Norashen village lives right near a minefield, and a former battlefield where unexploded ordnance (UXO) continue to be found. They live in constant fear that their children will be injured in a UXO accident. (NOTE: AZA HAS NAMES)
  • Children attend school in Khramort Village. The village has several fields that are heavily mined, including one near several children' homes. HALO has already cleared one minefield near a playground that the children use and is hoping for funds to clear the others.
  • The area around Gandzasar monastery, and especially around the cemetery, was cleared by HALO
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian enjoys a Saturday off with his family at his dacha in Achapniak, not too far from the HALO Trust HQ in Stepanakert.
  • 21 year-old deminer Aramayis Agopov chats with his brother Pavel Agopov, 27 in the Norashen anti-tank minefield. Both brothers work as deminers for HALO trust, and Pavel is one of the best deminers HALO employs.NOTE: AGES SHOULD BE DOUBLE CHECKED - I HAVE HEARD 2 DIFFERENT AGES FOR BOTH BROTHERS. ALSO WE HAVE LONG INTERVIEWS WITH BOTH.
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  • Children attend school in Khramort Village. The village has several fields that are heavily mined, including one near several children' homes. HALO has already cleared one minefield near a playground that the children use and is hoping for funds to clear the others.
  • Children attend school in Khtsaberd village. The area is very heavily mined, and HALO is trying to raise the funds to clear the minefields.
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian enjoys a Saturday off with his family at his dacha in Achapniak, not too far from the HALO Trust HQ in Stepanakert.
  • Russian teacher (and wife of HALO deminer Arshak Harutunyan) NAME TK teaches at a school in Tsaghkaberd village. The school serves children from both Tsaghkaberd and Maratuk villages, but the road between them was, until it was very recently cleared by HALO Trust, heavily mined - making the journey very difficult.
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  • HALO supervisor Narek Arakelian teaches a karate class after work at School # 8 in Stepanakert. His two daughters also participate in the classes and his eldest is a two-time champion.
  • HALO Program Manager Yuri Shahramanyan spends a Sunday evening visiting the famous Papik Tatik {quote}We Are Our Mountains{quote} statue with his family on the outskirts of Stepanakert.
  • June 15, 2013: BERDZOR/LACHIN, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- A young Syrian refugee from Aleppo watches her father pick mulberries outside of the guest house she and her parents are sharing with several other Syrian families in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
  • HALO supervisor Melord Aslanian lights candles at a small shrine near Govshatly village in the Hadrut region.
  • June 15, 2013: BERDZOR/LACHIN, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- A young Syrian refugee girl waits for her parents to serve lunch in their donated apartment building in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
  • HALO Program Manager Yuri Shahramanyan spends a Sunday evening visiting the famous Papik Tatik {quote}We Are Our Mountains{quote} statue with his family on the outskirts of Stepanakert.
  • The son of a beneficiary (NAME TK) unloads a carload of chickens in Harav village. NAMES TK
  • HALO deminers work to clear an anti-tank minefield near Govshatly village in the Hadrut region. DEFINERS HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED. NAMES AND PULL QUOTES TK NEXT WEEK
  • HALO supervisor Narek Arakelian teaches a karate class after work at School # 8 in Stepanakert. His two daughters also participate in the classes and his eldest is a two-time champion.
  • HALO Trust runs and emergency MRE class for teachers in Toumi Village in the Hadrut region. The Four Days War involved the use of a new kind of cluster munition that, because of a pink ribbon attached to it, is especially attractive, and thus dangerous to, children
  • Nine year-old Diana Budaghyan beats ten year-old Artur Petrosyan in chess during school in Khtsaberd village. The area is very heavily mined, and HALO is trying to raise the funds to clear the minefields.
  • Mine victim & family in Khtsaberd village.NAME AND DETAILS TK NEXT WEEK
  • Hamlet Khachatarian and his family
  • A forester walks by an American tourist in Karkar Canyon near the city of Shushi. The area was the site of huge battles during the war, and the forester has identified many munitions to be destroyed by HALO EOD teams.
  • The son of a beneficiary (NAME TK) herds geese back to his family's home in Harav village. NAMES TK
  • HALO deminers begin their second day of work clearing an anti-tank minefield in Sonasar Village in the Lachin Region.DEFINERS HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED. NAMES AND PULL QUOTES TK NEXT WEEK.
  • June 14, 2013: LACHIN/BERDZOR, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- Members of several different Syrian Armenian families stand in the kitchen of the guest house they are sharing in the unrecognized Caucasian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Several hundred Syrian-Armenian refugees, mostly from Qamishlii, have moved to the contested republic, where they have been given housing and loans to help them to restart their lives, although most are still struggling - the house they share lacks electricity and work is extremely difficult to come by. Most families have put their money into farming, but a freak hail storm damaged or destroyed most of this year's crop. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
  • A forester walks by an American tourist in Karkar Canyon near the city of Shushi. The area was the site of huge battles during the war, and the forester has identified many munitions to be destroyed by HALO EOD teams.
  • HALO Deminers work to clear an anti-personnel mine field near Norashen village in the Hadrut regions.DEMINERS HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED.
  • June 15, 2013: BERKADZOR, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- Syrian-Armenian Vrej Esmerian walks through a greenhouse full of orange and lemon trees he has planted with his brother Hovig in Berkadzor, near the Nagorno-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert. The brothers, who are originally from Aleppo are planting 15,000 saplings of different varieties ranging from citrus trees to olive trees to flowers, pine nuts, cactuses, grapes, coffee, and laurels, in an attempt to create a new industry for the unrecognized republic. Deeply patriotic, Vrej considers this project to be his contribution to the Armenian people. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
  • June 15, 2013: BERKADZOR, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- Young people enjoy the summer evening in a cliff near Shushi in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
  • Mine victim & family in Khtsaberd village.NAME AND DETAILS TK NEXT WEEK
  • Syrian Refugees - Berdzor, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • June 15, 2013: BERDZOR/LACHIN, NAGORNO-KARABAKH- A young Syrian refugee from Aleppo stands in the guest house she and her parents are sharing with several other Syrian families in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh, which in the Soviet Union was under the control of Azerbaijan, has been a de facto independent state since the 1988-94 Karabakh War in which its secessionist ethnic-Armenian population, backed by the Republic of Armenia, fought a war against the newly independent Azerbaijan, resulting in major population shifts as Azeri residents of Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for the Republic of Armenia. While the war theoretically ended in 1994, hostilities occasionally flare up, and Karabakh's final status is far from settled, with Azerbaijan referring to it as occupied territory that it hopes to regain and Armenia controlling the only actual access to the republic. As a result, the movement of Syrian refugees into the territory, although voluntary on the part of the families rather than part of a state-run plan, has the potential to be extremely controversial. Photo by Scout Tufankjian/Polaris
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  • Syrian Refugee - Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh
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