Azerbaijan
Invisible scars: Children, war, and mental health in Azerbaijan
The legacy of two wars, and neverending skirmishes have taken a heavy toll on the children living in Azerbaijani villages near the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact. Seven-year-old Aysu was one of the five people killed in Azerbaijan’s village of Garayusifli during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Her father, Rovshan Iskenderov, said that before the missile hit he had last seen her playing in the yard. ‘The shrapnel shattered my daughter’s internal organs. I wish I hadn’t seen her like that’