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An interesting piece about being stateless. "I am an ethnic Armenian. My parents are from Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed territory in Azerbaijan. I was born in Azerbaijan in 1973, when it was part of the Soviet Union. My family was in Turkmenistan when the U.S.S.R. collapsed, and no one would give me citizenship. Because I am of Armenian descent, Azerbaijan said I wasn’t an Azerbaijani. Armenia said that I hadn’t adequately proved I belonged there. After more than three years of discrimination, harassment and fear, I was able to get a travel visa to the United States in 1995. But my petition for asylum was rejected in 1996, and I was ordered to leave the country."
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:04:59 +0000

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