The only advantage of the basement-like two-room shelter of the Ghulyan family in Martakert is that theirs is not an ordinary basement but one with two stories, where they manage to “even feel the warmth of the sun”.

They rent the place. Their home, where they used to live from generation to generation, was set afire by Azeris in 1991. As a result Garnik Ghulyan, 47 along with his five children, wife and wife’s mother appeared in the street.

After changing places for several years, they were finally offered the shelter they now live in, where, as Garnik’s wife Hasmik says, they “haven’t seen anything good.”