1990: A resilient 106-year-old Armenian woman holding an AKM rifle in Degh village, near Goris, southern Armenia. The region has witnessed armed conflicts, particularly the Nagorno-Karabakh War, displacing many.
Born around 1915, she endured the Hamidian massacres and later the Armenian massacres by the Ottoman government. Living through the Soviet Union's incorporation of Armenia, she witnessed the bloody war with Azerbaijan in the '90s. The AKM she carries, distinct from an AK-74, symbolizes a lifetime marked by hardships and violence.
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