Perang Nagornox-Karabakh | |||||||||
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Bagian dari Konflik Nagorno-Karabakh | |||||||||
Searah jarum jam dari atas: Bekas APC Azerbaijan; pengungsi etnik Azerbaijan dari wilayah Armenia; monumen tank T-72 Armenia di Stepanakert; tentara Republik Nagorno Karabakh | |||||||||
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Pihak terlibat | |||||||||
1988–1991 | 1988–1991 | ||||||||
1991–1994
Suplai senjata |
1991–1994
Dukungan militer: Dukungan dari kelompok asing: Suplai persenjataan | ||||||||
Tokoh dan pemimpin | |||||||||
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Kekuatan | |||||||||
20,000 tentara Nagorno Karabakh + 8,000 dari Armenia[24] 500 gerbong amunisi[25] 177–187 artileri[26] 90–173 tank[26] 290–360 kendaraan lapis baja[26] 3 pesawat tempur[26] 13 helikopter[26] |
Total: 64,000 10,000 gerbong persenjataan[25] 395 artileri[33] 436[26]–458[33] tank 558[26]–1,264[33] kendaraan lapis baja 389[26]–480 kendaraan tempur lapis baja 63[26]–170 pesawat tempur 45–51 helikopter | ||||||||
Korban | |||||||||
156 tank T-72 direbut pasukan Armenia[39] 47 pesawat hancur[40] Awal 1992, setidaknya: 55 T-72 hancur, 24 BMP-2 hancur, 15 APC hancur, 25 artileri berat hancur[41] | |||||||||
Korban penduduk sipil:
Penduduk sipil hilang: Pengungsi: |
Perang Nagorno-Karabakh[44] adalah konflik etnik dan wilayah yang terjadi di akhir 1980an hingga tahun 1994, di enklave Nagorno-Karabakh yang ada di barat daya Azerbaijan, antara etnik Armenia yang merupakan penduduk mayoritas di Nagorno-Karabakh yang didukung oleh Armenia melawan Azerbaijan. Dalam perang tersebut, kedua bekas negara bagian Uni Soviet tersebut saling berhadapan dalam perang yang berlarut-larut di kawasan pegunungan Karabakh, di mana Azerbaijan berusaha untuk menumpas gerakan separatis Armenia di wilayah itu. Sebelum perang terjadi, parlemen enklave mengeluarkan keputusan yang menginginkan penyatuan wilayahnya dengan Armenia lewat referendum (yang ditolak oleh warga etnik Azerbaijan) dikarenakan mayoritas masyarakat memilih untuk merdeka. Pada awalnya keinginan masyarakat etnik Armenia Nagorno-Karabakh untuk menggabungkan dirinya dengan Azerbaijan dilakukan dengan cara damai, tetapi saat Uni Soviet perlahan-lahan runtuh, wacana penggabungan itu justru berubah menjadi konflik kekerasan antar dua etnik tersebut, bahkan keduanya saling mengklaim adanya pembersihan etnik antara kedua belah pihak seperti Pogrom Sumgait, Pogrom Baku dan Pembantaian Khojaly yang menjadi contoh paling terkenal.[45][46]
Kekerasan antaretnik mulai pecah saat parlemen Oblast Otonom Nagorno-Karabakh (yang ada di Azerbaijan) memutuskan untuk menggabungkan wilayahnya dengan Armenia pada 20 Februari 1988. Keputusan pemisahan diri dari Azerbaijan tersebut, merupakan hasil akhir dari konflik wilayah berkepanjangan antar kedua negara/etnik.[47] Keputusan tersebut menimbulkan kemarahan negara induknya Azerbaijan sehingga menyebabkan pemerintah Azerbaijan memutuskan mencabut hak otonomi oblast tersebut. Menyadari hal tersebut, etnik mayoritas Armenia memutuskan mengadakan referendum yang menghasilkan mayoritas suara merdeka. Mereka kemudian memutuskan mendeklarasikan Republik Nagorno-Karabakh (yang tidak diakui negara lain).
Setelah runtuhnya Uni Soviet pada Desember 1991, ketegangan antar kedua negara yang baru merdeka tersebut menjadi semakin memanas dan akhirnya pecah menjadi konflik bersenjata pada awal tahun 1992. Upaya perdamaian dan mediasi yang ditawarkan sejumlah lembaga internasional seperti Organisasi untuk Keamanan dan Kerjasama di Eropa (OSCE), menemui kegagalan. Pada awal 1993, pasukan Armenia berhasil menguasai wilayah di luar batas bekas oblast Nagorno-Karabakh, sehingga menyebabkan kemarahan negara di sekitarnya yang mengancam akan terlibat dalam perang tersebut.[48] Pada akhir perang pada tahun 1994, pasukan Armenia berhasil menguasai penuh enklaf tersebut (kecuali Wilayah Shahumyan) ditambah daerah-daerah di sekitarnya, terutama Koridor Lachin, jalur pegunungan yang menghubungkan Nagorno-Karabakh dengan daratan Armenia. Kedua negara kemudian mentandatangani gencatan senjata yang diusulkan Rusia pada Mei 1994 yang mengakhiri perang. Upaya-upaya mediasi dan pembicaraan damai antar kedua negara, sayangnya masih belum menemukan titik terang, sehingga status wilayah Nagorno-Karabakh menjadi tidak jelas. Di wilayah tersebut berdiri Republik Artsakh yang de facto merdeka dan adanya penguasaan 9% wilayah Azerbaijan oleh Armenia, tetapi keduanya tidak diakui secara internasional.[49] Diperkirakan hampir 230,000 penduduk etnis Armenia yang sebelumnya tinggal di Azerbaijan dan 800,000 penduduk etnis Azerbaijan yang sebelumnya tinggal di Karabakh dan Armenia terpaksa mengungsi ke wilayah lain karena konflik ini.[50]
Members of the ARF fought actively in the Karabakh conflict and the party had its own military units. Later, when Karabakh and Armenia formed regular armies, some of the Dashnak units merged with the armies, others were disarmed.
The Dashnaks, of course, are the ones who did the heavy lifting on the ground. Their men, including a substantial number of volunteers from the diaspora, did a great deal of the fighting and dying before the cease-fire.
In the last years of its existence, the Soviet government supported Azerbaijan because its government was dominated by former communists.
Soviet security forces supported Azerbaijan's efforts to reimpose control over Nagornyi Karabakh and Armenian villages outside the enclave.
Initially, the Soviet regime in the Kremlin appears to have supported Azerbaijan in its attempt to maintain the territorial integrity of the borders established by Stalin in 1921.
Russia was widely viewed as supporting the Armenian position. Much of this perception stemmed from the fact that Russia transferred military support to Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Greece supported Armenia both by delivering military and economic assistance and diplomatic representation by promoting the Armenia's interests in the EU and NATO.
The only country that constantly expressed its support for Azerbaijan is Turkey.
As the war over Nagorno Karabakh unfolded, and as Turkey sided with Azerbaijan ...
Turkey took the Azerbaijani position, showing special activity. It rendered active military help to Azerbaijan. In the Azerbaijani army there were Turkish officers-instructors and a group of the Azerbaijani men started training in Turkey.
It is also revealed that a new force of 200 armed members of the Grey Wolves organization has been dispatched from Turkey in preparation for a new Azeri offensive and to train units of the Azeri army.
Israel supported the Azeri side in this conflict by supplying Stinger missiles to Azerbaijani troops during the war.
In addition to commercial links, Israel has given strong backing to Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, which reportedly has included military assistance.
But as subsequent events evolved it became all too apparent that Ukraine has steadfastly stood behind Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict all along. ...it was reported from Stepanakert that Ukraine had shipped 40 tanks to Azerbaijan. Later that number was raised to 59. Ukraine had also supplied Azerbaijan with Mig-21 attack places.
Overlaying what is fundamentally a territorial dispute are the consequences of the 1991–94 war: a decisive Armenian military victory resulting in Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh and the further occupation of seven districts surrounding it.
Brokered by the Russian Minister of Defense, a ceasefire was signed in 1994 primarily as a result of the decisive Armenian military victory.
A cease-fire was achieved in May 1994, after a decisive Armenian victory that included their occupation of approximately 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.
The war ended in a decisive Armenian victory in 1994, with the Armenians of Karabakh (supported by Armenia) taking control not only of Nagorny Karabakh itself but also occupying in whole or in part seven regions of Azerbaijan surrounding the former NKAO.
Thus by any standard, the war in Karabakh led to the military victory of the Karabakh Armenians.
After approximately 20,000 deaths, the war ended with the military victory of Armenia.
The mostly Armenian population of the disputed region now lives under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a micronation that is supported by Armenia and is effectively part of that country.
Following the Armenian victory in that conflict, confirmed by the 1994 ceasefire, Armenia has since carried out a de facto annexation of Karabakh.
Following the war, the territories that fell under Armenian control, in particular Mountainous Karabakh itself, were slowly integrated into Armenia. Officially, Karabakh and Armenia remain separate political entities, but for most practical matters the two entities are unified."
While internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory, the enclave has declared itself an independent republic but is administered as a de facto part of Armenia.
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Turkey continued to provide military as well as economic aid to Azerbaijan. As further proof, the Turkish army and intelligence services launched undercover operations to supply Azerbaijan with arms and military personnel. According to Turkish sources, over 350 high-ranking officers and thousands of volunteers from Turkey participated in the warfare on the Azerbaijani side.
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