christian armenians and muttslim azaris lived in peace for nearly a century.hem in the late 1980 did, when the ussr was breaking up, armenians held a national referendum, independence from azerbjain and self rule. but they said they did not have the legal right and sent in the military to retake the area. thousands of mupslims from the area were forced to flee, and after years of fighting in nomo than 30,000 deaths, the karabak region and others reached a truce in 1994. >> we are fighting on our own territory. if an armenian soldier doesn't want to die, then let them get off of the territory. >> reporter: the republic is not recognized by the u.n. analysts believe the renewed skirmishes could lead to a greater regional war. >> the big question mark people worry about is: it probably wouldn't stay confined to those two countries. there is a good possibility of turkish intervention and even more serious, a good popsibility of russian intervention if the fighting becomes an all-out war. >> the osc men's group chaired by am bats dors from the u.s., russia and fran