Hundreds of former residents of Nagorno-Karabakh visited the Yerablur Military Pantheon in Yerevan on Thursday to honor the victims of the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive and the subsequent mass exodus of Armenians from the region. On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military attack on Nagorno-Karabakh following a nine-month blockade of the region. On September 28, Artsakh’s information headquarters announced that the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh would cease to exist as of January 1, 2024. Some 115,000 people fled to Armenia in the wake of the offensive, effectively emptying the region of its ethnic Armenian population. Today, 23 Armenians remain in Azerbaijani custody, including former political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to official data.