Azerbaijan’s ‘dictator’ Ilham Aliyev engaging in ‘ethnic and religious cleansing, mass deportation’

Azerbaijan on Thursday said it wanted ethnic Armenians to remain in Nagorno-Karabakh after its lightning offensive crushed the rebel region’s independence bid. Yerevan said 70,000 of the region’s estimated 120,000 people had entered Armenia since Azerbaijan lifted a nine-month blockade on Sunday. The separatist government on Thursday agreed to dissolve its government and formally become part of Azerbaijan by the end of the year. Baku’s statement came after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday accused it of engaging in “ethnic cleansing” by driving people out. For a deeper perspective on Azerbaijan’s takeover of the ethnic Armenian breakaway region and their call for ethnic Armenians ‘not to leave’ Nagorno-Karabakh, FRANCE 24’s Tom Burges Watson is joined by Olivier Weber, French Diplomat, Author, Senior Reporter, and former War Correspondent.