ocr: The 1988 decision by Nagomo Karabakh's Armenian- dominated council to unite the enclave with the Armenian republic brought to a head decades of ethnic tension between Armenians and Azeris. Armenian separatists were soon engagedinan escalating war in which thousands were lalled and. hundreds of thousands made homeless. In 1993, Armenian troops invadedto aid the separatists; over 20% of Azerbaijan's territory is now under Armenian control.
