For years to come, its violent dissolution will loom large in the Armenian consciousness and reverberate across other majority-minority conflicts around the globe.
Vagif Khachatryan, a 68-year-old veteran of the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s, pleaded not guilty but was convicted of crimes including "genocide."
Karabakh Armenians have long held passports of the Republic of Armenia, but it turns out they're not Armenian citizens. Now they must choose between citizenship and a newly created special status.
At least 212 people were killed in a blast at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh amid the chaos of the entire Armenian population's exodus from the region.
The decision comes amid the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and after the arrest by Azerbaijan of one of the region's most prominent former officials.