The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989
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Two people were killed and 12 injured when gangs of Azerbaijanis attacked homes of minority Armenians in the Azerbaijani village of Balkash, a local official said, according to a report from Moscow. The violence was the latest in a long-running dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, a province in Azerbaijan. Many of those involved in the attack were Azerbaijanis who had fled ethnic strife in the neighboring republic of Armenia. More than 100 people have been killed in the last 18 months in violence related to the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. The province’s Armenian majority wants the enclave to be transferred to Armenia.
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