‘I will never go back’: Death stalks the exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh

More than 6,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have left region following Azerbaijan victory

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The day the shelling began, Genadi Hyusunts had just taken his four-day-old son home from the hospital.

Within hours, he had to hustle his wife, the newborn child and his six other children to the shelter in his native Martakert, which sits in Nagorno-Karabakh on the frontline of a three-decade conflict with Azerbaijan.