00:00 Cars stuffed with piles of belongings arriving in Armenia.
00:05 Each day the number of refugees grows, leaving Nagorno-Karabakh increasingly empty.
00:12 When Azerbaijan took control of Nagorno-Karabakh last week, most of the ethnic Armenians decided
00:18 to leave their homes.
00:20 They believed they were in danger of extermination, despite Azerbaijan's assurances of their safety.
00:28 Thousands of new arrivals reach Gores, the first city over the border.
00:33 This is the first place they can get help and shelter.
00:37 They share the hardships they went through to get here.
00:42 We spent three days in traffic.
00:45 It was a difficult trip.
00:48 It was a very difficult moment for us to leave our town and our home.
00:55 Inside of three years, I have lost two homes.
00:59 My four young children have heard so many shells and missiles.
01:03 They cried so much.
01:05 It affected them psychologically.
01:08 I just wish my kids had a safe place and went to school like other children."
01:23 The city of Gores, 50 km from the border, has become a humanitarian hub for ethnic Armenians
01:29 fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh.
01:31 Thousands of refugees have been arriving at Gores Theatre, where they are being registered,
01:35 where the first medical and psychological help is being provided by the volunteers.
01:41 International organizations have been working here non-stop, as well as the whole city,
01:45 to provide the refugees with all the necessary.
01:50 Tents in makeshift tents feed people with sandwiches, sweets and tea - things they were
01:55 deprived of for a long time.
01:58 The volunteers also say housing all the refugees will be an issue for a small country like
02:03 Armenia.
02:04 "I think the most pressing thing seems to be accommodation.
02:12 It's an overwhelming amount of people.
02:14 So the country, entirely the system, wasn't really prepared to take on this many people,
02:18 I think."
02:20 The hospitality of individual Armenians toward their fellow compatriots eases the burden.
02:26 The refugees say they feel welcomed.
02:30 Locals come here to help with whatever they can.
02:33 "Our town is supporting people, especially kids.
02:41 The locals are doing whatever they can.
02:45 They provide shelter and feed them.
02:49 Our town can do this."
02:52 Some refugees have been in Gores for a few days, sleeping in their cars, waiting to register.
02:59 Some plan to go to the capital city of Yerevan and live with their relatives.
03:04 Others say they have no one to go to.
03:07 All of them are overwhelmed by the uncertainty of their future.
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