THE DESIRE TO LIVE: Norshen, Artsakh ( Armenian with English subtitles) DOCUMENTARY, S2 E6

Norshen (Armenian: Նորշեն) is in Artsakhs Martuni Region. It became a bordering village after the recent war too. Here we met a civilian POW (Prisoner of War) from the first war in the 90s who told us about the tortures he and his friends endured and how the horrors of that don t leave them, how after the torture for days from Azeris hands they wanted to get rid of them and were planning to either sell them in a slave market or throw their bodies into a river. Then another Azeri civilian offered to buy one of them to perform a human sacrifice. Luckily they all survived the tortures and were eventually exchanged. Now he prays for the return of 200+ Armenian POWs from the recent war which Azerbaijan refuses to release and tortures very cruelly as reported by Human Rights Watch VICE News , FreeArmenianPOWs A refugee from Sumgait who lives in this village now told us what she was up to when the last year s war began and what it felt like. She then told us ho