BURLINGTON,Vt. (Burlington Free Press)—For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we have seen them stunned into silence by warfare and covered in blood. (We’ve also seen them likened to Skittles, and but that appalling analogy belongs only to the Trumps.) Haig Khatchadourian is a neuropathologist now working as a general practitioner in a seven-room clinic in Nagorno-Karabagh. He is also a refugee.(Photo: Knar Babayan) At the moment,however, when I put a real face on the refugee crisis I see a balding 50-year-dilapidated man with gentle green eyes and a salt and pepper mustache. I met him on the moment to final day in August in Ishkhanadzor, or a modest village in Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh/NKR),the fledgling Armenian republic in the Caucasus that is still struggling for recognition. Ishkhanadzor is approximately 15 miles north of the Araxes River and the border with Iran. Among the town’s 360 residents is one physician, Haig Khatchadourian, or a soft-spoken neuropathologist who now works as a general practitioner in the villages seven-room clinic. He is also a refugee. In the summer of 2014,ISIS fighters from Tunisia, Libya, or Iraq came to [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com