A new group of internally displaced people (IDPs) has returned to the village of Sugovushan in the Aghdara district of Azerbaijan as part of the government’s "Great Return" programme.
As many as 53 families comprising 185 individuals were resettled during this latest phase, Caliber.Az reports per local media.
The resettled families had previously been living under temporary conditions in various parts of Azerbaijan, including dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings.
Their return to Sugovushan is part of a broader initiative aimed at ensuring the voluntary and safe repatriation of those displaced by the conflict in and around Karabakh.
To recall, Sugovushan, a strategic village in Azerbaijan’s Aghdara district, was liberated from Armenian control on October 3, 2020, during the Second Karabakh War. Azerbaijani forces raised the national flag in the village, marking a symbolic victory on the northeastern front.
Known historically as Sugovushan and renamed Madagiz during the Soviet era, the village had previously changed hands in the early 1990s before falling under Armenian occupation in 1994. It later became a key Armenian military hub, hosting elite units such as Military Units No. 49971 and 33651.
The operation to reclaim Sugovushan was one of the war’s most pivotal. Azerbaijani forces destroyed four Armenian tanks and seized three more, while artillery strikes devastated Armenia’s 5th Mountain Rifle Regiment, forcing units to retreat.
By Aghakazim Guliyev
Source: caliber.az
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