Miatsum (Armenian: Միացում "unification") refers to the movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Soviet Azerbaijan to the Soviet Armenia during the late 1980s and early 1990s, which led to the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992-1994.[1]
The idea originated in an era of realignment among the Armenians who were unhappy that the area, inhabited predominantly by an Armenian population remains under the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan. From the 1970s, with the support of the first secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR, Heydar Aliyev, a policy of settling NKAO by Azeris was being implemented. The Armenian pogroms in Sumgait and Baku only exacerbated these trends, which led to military clashes between troops of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army (Artsakh).
The Azerbaijani side has compared the idea Miatsum with that of Anschluss undertaken of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. From the perspective of supporters of the idea of Miatsum, this comparison does not apply, as the initiator of the last policy was the Nazi party in Germany, is not considered to be the opinion of the Austrian authorities and the people. While miatsum was the desire of vast majority of the Armenian society in Nagorno-Karabakh and in many ways conceived as generally inevitable ideology.
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Origins Soviet era
Recent developments
1 Republic of Armenia's involvement is partial |
Nagorno-Karabakh, North Nagorno-Karabakh, Central Nagorno-Karabakh, South |
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Military aid to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Military aid to Azerbaijan Conflict mediation
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