Angry at their government agreeing to cede territory to arch-foe Azerbaijan, dozens of Armenian protesters have blocked major highways and vowed to fight the transfer of land they say is rightfully theirs.
About 10 kilometres from the border with Azerbaijan in the northeastern Tavush region, locals parked their cars across the road, shouting as they set up tents along the winding mountain pass to block the traffic.
They included 96-year-old Lena Ghardashyan.
“We will not give up even one centimetre,” she told AFP at the roadblock.
“We will shed blood, but we will not give up. At my age, I will go on my knees, but I will not give up.”
The protesters are hoping to thwart Armenia’s plans to return control of four abandoned Azerbaijani villages — seized during the 1990s — as part of wider talks on securing an elusive peace deal with Baku.
The two Caucasus rivals have been…
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