Refugees lived on wagons for many years after Armenian troops invaded Azerbaijani territories in the 1990s. Their living conditions were harsh: with limited or no access to water, electricity, and essential services for years.
In the 1990s, the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Karabakh, made almost one million people of Azerbaijan homeless. From this, 620,000 were internally displaced persons (IDPs) from in and around Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. In addition, some 200,000 ethnic Azerbaijani Turk refugees arrived in 1988 and 1989 from Armenia. About 12 percent of Azerbaijan's population consists of displaced people, including ten percent of Baku's two million inhabitants.
Photographer Paul Grover / The Daily Telegraph - 1994, Azerbaijan.
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