'We expected to go back in days': Karabakh truce means exile for some, homecoming for others

Many from the region's Armenian population have become refugees, as previously displaced Azeris prepare to go home

Weeks of shelling could not force Irina Safaryan's parents from their bunker in the southern Karabakh town of Hadrut. Only when Azerbaijan's soldiers reached the settlement's outskirts did the Armenian family agree to run.

We expected to go back to our houses in three or four days, maximum a week," Safaryan says. They left behind the family photo albums.