12:34-12:46 "The capital of Karabakh is the small town of Stepanakert. During Soviet Communist times it was a provincial Azeri town under Muslim control. Now the only people here are Christian Karabakhians with ties to Armenia." Demographics of Stepanakert: 1926 Census: 2,724 Armenians (85.4%) and 343 Azerbaijanis (10.8%) 1939 Census: 9,079 Armenians (86.8%) and 672 Azerbaijanis (6.4%) 1959 Census: 17,640 Armenians (89.5%) and 1,143 Azerbaijanis (5.8%) 1970 Census: 26,684 Armenians (88.1%) and 2,762 Azerbaijanis (9.1%) 1979 Census: 33,898 Armenians (87.0%) and 4,303 Azerbaijanis (11.0%) 2005 Census: 49,848 Armenians (99.7%) and 138 others (2 Azerbaijanis) (0.3%) Its rather obvious that Stepanakert was never an "Azeri" town. And it was never under Muslim control because it was the capital of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and all eighteen First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Nagorno- Karabakh (1923-1991) were ethnic Armenians.

@arturocevallossoto5203

8 жыл бұрын

+Kristapor Aintabtsi I think they're trying to say that the Muslims (the minority) were the ones in charge.

@TheAkaboyboy

8 жыл бұрын

Ban Ki-moon They weren't, not sure if you knew but all First Secretaries of the Nagorno-Karabakh Communist Party were Armenians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Secretary_of_the_Nagorno-Karabakh_Communist_Party

Now that fighting has flared up again, I think Simon Reeve needs to revisit some of these places. Nagorno Karabakh has flared up since this doco and South Ossetia also has flared out.

WOW what a great series of vids. Well done Simon. (MORE please).

Brilliant series

Nice meet you Simon!! I watched your programs on bbc It means strong and meaning message

I am a great fan of Simon Reeve...

very informative documentary, i love this series from bbc, i get to learn and understand what has happened or is happening to some other parts of the world, places i have never heard of before...very very interesting and many people should watch this....also kudos to Simon Reeve for doing a great for BBC.

This series is fascinating, wish there was an episode on West Papua or Biafra.

@piusukaegbu9850

8 жыл бұрын

yes,,i am a biafran,,we seek for own independence

nice doco's, i almost forgot the purpose of my travels were to be patient in a new culture. thanks

I love documentaries and I am glad to have found yours, Simon. Interesting views of the world I will not see, but through your eyes. My son just got back from a year in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne of the USA Army. Have you done any films on Afghanistan? He said it is like Arizona in America. He was in Helmand Province. Perhaps it is too dangerous to go there for you. I think the BBC does the best documentaries and they are blessed to have you as a film maker. Thank you.

You are a most awesome person, bless you and bless your son!

NK is in the news again today and I instantly thought of this excellent documentary. 20:12 Simon looks like a tesco worker during COVID. 23:10 the low deuterium content of mountain water is linked to long life.

The way he claps after the Song is done!!!! Now I'm done!!!!😂😂😂 It sounds sooo funny

Places that don't exist, you should do a documentary about Molise.

Thanks fot this documentary film. During war many civilians lost their home and familiy relatives while armenian militants invaded the karabakh

Dear Simon, you should do a trip to Nakhachivan, a historical Armenian lands, if you find a single Armenian Stone Cross, or a single Armenian Church standing please video it, in past 10 years over 10,000 stone Crosses called KachKars were destroyed by the azeri, some dating back 1600 years, this is done to erase any evidence of the owners of the lands now occuppied by azerbajian...

The innocence of children, bliss. What ever does happen as we grow up I do not know.

It was the azeris that did all the attrocities

And in the end of 2020 it still continues..

Anyone from 2020?

And in 2021 it blew up let’s keep it at that

I remember this time, so well in the United Kingdom, the endless numbers of young men in their early 20s, coming across on the rubber dinghies I can remember those early years, you couldn’t get a place in the hotel, because they were full of people that come away from the conflict

Azerbaijan can wish all they want, but this region will never be theirs. And if they try, Armenia is supported by Russia.

@hasmiko

8 жыл бұрын

+ilcool90 russia never supported us. armenians were fighting without weapons! all alone! they created their own defence weapons there. while azerbaijan was hiring ukrainians and georgians and even russian to fight against armenia.. all for money of course

@xtremeownage2

8 жыл бұрын

This is your fantasy. Russia does indeed support Armenia.

@hasmiko

8 жыл бұрын

russia is selling weapons to azeris. russia wants armenia and trusts only armenia but wont do anything for armenia

@cengizsogutlu

6 жыл бұрын

Azerbaijan is supported by turks one thing happens in russia like in 90s only god can save armenians

why not a 780p video, at least?

That musician isn't speaking Armenian... Did I miss something?

she is singing a melody from Duman ;D

@mugegran7721

9 жыл бұрын

Gosia Bunnson Actually, from Sezen Aksu...

As that great philosphopher BRUNO once said "There is one ..sh..thole left to fix..The Middle Earth"

Who is here after Azerbaijan took control of Nagorno Karabakh

@gundag453

9 ай бұрын

Was a powerful rewatch. I’m sure we’re all left wondering how the Azeri and Armenian people we got to see have fared up to this point and through the current situation.

@misacat-girl2865

7 ай бұрын

Me

Oh god, I hope that casualties can be minimized in this conflict, the last thing the near east needs is more death & conflict.

@aleksandralis9134

3 жыл бұрын

it isn't near east

Simon looks like FPS Russia. Worth mentioning.

120k tops. Where's the other half million??

Now we have to wear that plastic sheild everyday. Wow.

From what I heard Azerbaijan won the latest round of this long conflict

18:39 haha in the corner

"Are you aware you are walking on a mine field?"

NK autonomous region never had population over 200k, that is right. But the surrounding regions (7 rayons) which "NKR" doesnt claim yet keeps under military occupation for negotiations did have up to a million inhabitants. BBC did get its facts right.

I didn't quite understand why the people from Karabach who live in Azerbaijan can't go back to their homeland. Why is it? And also, is anyone willing to describe how does the situation look now? 10 years passed since this documentary. Thanks in advance.

@Kristov818

9 жыл бұрын

It's a frozen conflict and it's Armenian and rightfully so

@AzeriDervish

9 жыл бұрын

Samuel Leško Its still frozen conflict, Armenia wont even accept the idea of 1 million referees returning there. The conflict in Ukraine showed that this is another project of Putin-FSB and Armenia is just puppet nation which is being tossed around for the political needs of Russia. All Azerbaijanis wants is the return of refugees to their homes and mediating the conflict without the ethnic hate which Armenian people just like Kristov818 shows.

@Kristov818

9 жыл бұрын

Agulani maybe one day once a true cease fire is in place, but again it will remain Armenian :) And its funny how you speak of ethnic hate when I personally have azeri friends and my moms best friends growing up were azeri (she still is friends).. The difference is they were not brainwashed to think they were so-called turks and have no problems with Armenians

@user-tg6ug6nc2o

8 жыл бұрын

+Samuel Leško Legally speaking, any refugee can apply for and easily receive citizenship in the Artsakh Republic. But doing so would be acknowledging that an Armenian government exists in the region. Azeris are too brainwashed into thinking that Artsakh is Azeri and any alternative is false. Which is why even until now you have refugees in Baku. The Azeri government isn't doing anything to help them so they can seem like victims. At the same time they're trying to build the tallest building in the world instead of refugee housing. As for Artsakh, it's slowly getting back onto it's feet. It only does trade with Armenia which means it's developed a sort of self-sufficiency. Stepanakert is nice and fairly modern, outside of it though is fairly rural and remains untouched, like the majority of rural Azerbaijan and Armenia.

8 жыл бұрын

Joseph Pachanyan Those refugees in Baku you talk about are coming from where? Anyway, thanks for your insight. :)

7:22 awww hahah :( poor kid

What about the Azeris who fled Armenia because of the conflict? I think they may be including those as refugees.

I was born in Jabrail (Karabakh) and raised there up until 1993 when Russian backed Armenian forces seized Karabakh and other surrounding Azerbaijani territories. My family left everything (houses, wineries and factories) there, and took refuge in Baku. So far I've seen and talked to many armenians across the world who think this campaign brought nothing but poverty, more Russian control, and blockade from Azerbaijan and Armenia. Obviously, with the retreat of Russian power from the South Caucasus region, Azerbaijan and Armenia will come to an peaceful aggreement after which all people will be living in Karabakh under the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan as it was in the past. Show less

@hasmiko

8 жыл бұрын

+Orkhan Bey so when you use the term russian backed armenia ( which is not true as we can see russia is on azeri side today ) does it make you feel powerful ?

@wessexfox5197

Жыл бұрын

Except it rightly by historical precedent property of Armenia. The only way to end this would be to bring in a fair and neutral third party that gives Karabakh to Armenia and tidies the borders up so there aren’t any stupid enclaves.

given to Azerbaijan by Stalin ? that is a misunderstanding . It was in Azerbaijan , before the soviet union , Stalin wanted to heat things up by drawing up its borders and and giving it autonomy

LONG LIVE ARMENIA !!!!

look up town of Akna/Aghdam on google earth,it's a destroyed town in NK thousands of destroyed houses,industries,everything! It's a truly post apocalyptic landscape!

Ethnic nationalist hatred caused all this pain and suffering. It all started in 1988 during Stalinist times. Armenians and Azerbaijanians both started killing each other for stupid nationalist reasons. Both nations were still ´´socialist´´ in name when they used their Soviet armies to murder. This is why ethnic nationalism is the biggest enemy of socialism. It serves the ruling class of both Armenia and Azerbaijan!

I think those people must have a death wish or something because I would not want to walk on a mine field and get blowen up.

@TheAkaboyboy

9 жыл бұрын

We're Armenian we can care less, after witnessing what we have witnessed one learns to no longer fear death ;)

Correct said is: there are no places for Azerbaijan, they were and will always be sacred Armenian lands, as half of Turkey, which for a fraction, on the time scale, are in possession of turks.

they should find out both Armenian and Azerbaijani's opinion, that makes a good documentary. Btw hope Armenian and Azerbaijanis live peacefully. They should know how dark the politics is to cause them to die for their leaders.

I felt like this documentary was not really informative, there's no reference to the past and the reasons why this situation was created.

@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk

9 жыл бұрын

You can read about the history on your own. This gives you the current situation.

@MrGoodkat94

9 жыл бұрын

jvaa cvaa Ok, but being this a reportage and being him a journalist, the whole thing is supposed to give the audience a wider image of the situation, otherwise it turns into a guy having a vacation and taking about it.

@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk

9 жыл бұрын

***** shutup

Karabakh . you name it that way

22:00 hahahaha

LOL First of all, I was JOKING! Second of all, Turkey belongs to Armenia, not Iran. Third of all, I'm not black.

The first 10 minutes showing the POV of the Azeris offset the whole video...I felt that it was biased towards the Azerbaijani side. The segment on the Armenian POV was twice as long (20 minutes), but it was much more bland and poorly covered in my opinion.

What a sad & tortured life they have, no electricity,no water? Hopefully The refugees will be able the be back to their mother land, soon.

@Kristov818

9 жыл бұрын

Azerbaijan did not even exist til 1918... Anyone can look up the Armenian kingdom and Artaskh and see who's motherland it is.

Azeris are people from a tribe in afghanistan, and other bordering countries like ouzbekistan, peple from azerbaijan are azerbaijanis...

thanks for your hard work, you kinda put your life in danger to find out about the truths. i would aske these questions if i were you: dont film it because i lie, cant sing about kharabagh because i feel guilty. how is ur motherland when stalin gave it to u? what armenian's should call it? tx

U may not know this but nagorno karaback once balonged to Armenia when it was part of the Soviet Union and Russia decided to give two parts of Armenia to Azerbaijan artask (nagorno karaback) and nakchivan so it was truly armenian land so take that jerks!

ARTSAKH = ARMENIA!

@swanvideos9664

2 жыл бұрын

Yes yes... )) Hello from 2020

not only today Artsakh was Armenian always invaded and occupied by turks for too long

whats the fucking point of making life miserable for other people???

@stavrosgazis5824

7 жыл бұрын

Jack Greb lol... i think Lincoln... should be an official quote!!!

Reeve is being one-sided about Nagorno Karabakh. The people are mostly Armenian and Christian, so it is appropriate they control their region. Azeris also have an encliave outside their borders -- so their objections are completely hypocritical. Reeve is a bit dim and naive.

@KKTR3

Жыл бұрын

When he first came on the scene it was a bit of a different world but with the passage of time you’ve realised he’s just a BBC stooge

Lets Get the Facts rights - Yes historically it had armenian population;however, N/K is a small part of larger territory which had a historical large Azeri population. its like England attacks Spain and conquers whole Granada on basis of Gibraltar! does it make sense of course no! Once Soviets came Armenia claimed large amounts of Azerbaijani and Georgian territory on basis of Great armenia. in return to there hilarious claim a large portion of Azerbaijani territory called Zangezur was given to them effectively separating Azerbaijan from Turkey! now they want more and more...

@simoaras

10 жыл бұрын

Simon!! Azeri muslim rebels in Syria eat people after they kill them. But they are still not happy! Azeri cannibalism is well known fact and one of the major symptoms of it is that they do not tolerate other people's graves and destroy them. It is their national tradition. Check out what happened in Nachichevan with ancient Armenian Cemetery. During WW1 azeries were praying on armenian flesh as Turks were killing them. After God gave Azeries lots of oil so they don't do this but their greedy government is not sharing enough with their fellow citizens and they are still blood thursty. They may be not aware how this oil can be taken back or be finished and they will end up eating people but this time only each other becuse Karabakh now has enough military means to cleanse all Azery cannibals from the face of the earth.

@AzeriDervish

10 жыл бұрын

simoaras Oh again this pseudo-historian man you dont have anything better to do than spread your crap?

11:13 DU QARABAKH CHES STANA, DU AVELI LAVA KLIRS CCI VOR CHGANK BAKVI MEJ@ SAXIT BERANNER@ JAJ TANK, MIATE HEROSUTYAN MASINES YERGUM, TO JAJ TAM QO DZER HEROSUTYAN VRA, ETA DZER HEROSUTYUN@? MI BUR AZGOV SAXIT HORTERIN HAT HAT LACACRINK, QUNEM DZER SUTI HEROSUTYAN BERAN@ BARRAN GYOTER.

What is the name of the azeri singer??? Botox Plastic Queen?? Are there any Azeri women without plastic surgey or Botox?

One koji žele da profitiraju? To je nasleđe Tuđmana. hej sloveni, još ste živi duh naših dedova...

very informative, but in the opposite way. read the books! history speaks about something completely different.

i wish things were pre-WW1 where turks and armenians were neighbours without any borders and now look at this!! doesnt fuckin matter anymore to blame any one side during these years as a land isn't any free or land of nobody without its people -what's done cannot be undone. so everybody can love and protect their shitty lands for all i care... :)

Artsakh=Armenia

@rzaaeeff

8 жыл бұрын

Dagliq Qarabag = Azerbaijan

??? I though the population of Nagorno-Karabach was only about 150 000???

Artsakh was never a part of independent azerbaijan, and never shall be.

the funny thing is that Baku is the only rich city in all of Azerbaijan, everything else is poor, most Azeri's leave Azerbaijan and go to Russia or Turkey to find jobs. Aliyevs dictatorship is causing all Azerbaijani's to suffer they are one of the top countries with human right violations (along side with Turkey) an Muslim extremest country that shows no contribution to the world.

he means refugees from the NK conflict, not FROM NK, but from armenia and occupied azerbaijan as well as NK. sorry but you are incorrect, and really post as fact without academic thoroughness. search IDPs and refugees of azerbaijan.

N/K is integral part of Republic of Azerbaijan and anyone undermining that will face consequences.

@InzuDraRagna

10 жыл бұрын

Really?

@AzeriDervish

10 жыл бұрын

Yes Really!

@simoaras

10 жыл бұрын

Can you bring any human proof that Azerbaidzhan existed before USSR and owned Karabakh? You cannibal !!!

@zhalt123

10 жыл бұрын

N/K is Armenian.

@simoaras

10 жыл бұрын

No Azerobarans will face terrible consequences if try to take any part of Artsakh. No matter how much arms your Aliev- baran-ata to buy you never dare to open another war as you still feel how your ass burns after you failed to occupy those territories. Next time you will lose control of only more. God protects Artsakh from human-haters like you. There was no such a country called Azerbaran on the world's map before USSR collapsed. Thus Karabakh never been a part of country called Azerbaranistan. Stick your azerbaran legend in your ass and if can not get any comfort where you are now go back to your Mongolia or Tatarstan and lick sheep's middle leg.

What he was doing with the yoghurt has really pissed me off. That is so offensive. HE is such a typical English guy going to places he shouldn't be in.

Seems to me like the Azerbaijanis learned from their mistakes in the first war and spent the years building up their army and training future generations for conflict while Armenians spent time shopping for Louis vutton and Gucci .

@cuber5003

9 ай бұрын

I'm surprised the Armenian keyboard warriors haven't shown up yet to screech at you. Must've blown all their money on shopping 😂

All this land belongs to Iran anyway so just deal with it...

lol angry people on youtube

it is your argument is not even hypocritical but completely stupid. The anclave as you called Nakhchivan is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, as well as Karabakh is recognized part of Azerbaijan. Your argument sound like argument of gangster who thinks he is entitled for the money of other people because they have it. So he thinks he is right to lute them as it is unfair that they have money and the gangster do not.

Karabakh is Armenian ethnic place, but this land is Azeri territory. It was claimed by Azerbaijan. Please give back to Azerbaijan.

@greggrigoryan1976

8 жыл бұрын

never

@tigranhakobyan2812

8 жыл бұрын

+Emperor UZBEKISTAN o ye how about Turkey and azerbaran give back our lands

So much for a non-biased neutral coverage. Ha ha, typical BBC.

BBC sucks lol - I am from London.

Nagorno Karabakh is Azeribaijan territory. Greetings from Pakistan.

Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan!

A bad documentary, unprofessional even for a non-professional report. Does not reflect the history and the roots of the conflict and gives only a vogue understanding of how it was, let's it for the viewer to guess and of course guess wrong. Apart from that, it neither shows the current situation, talks, agreement etc. actually 0 useful information if judged harsh