At the same time. Armenia has been engaged in an ongoing and increasingly violent confrontation with the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan. Aided and abetted by Soviet forces. the Azeris have decimated the largely Armenian population of the NagornoKarabagh region. killing thousands and generating a wave of internal refugees which numbers more than 200.000. They have also blockaded ground transportation into Armenia. dramatically setting back the efforts at earthquake reconstruction. Compounding the problem. the Soviet Governmentfor both political and economic reasons--has now stopped all funding for earthquake relief. just as the oftdelayed relief effort of the central government was getting underway.
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