The Washington Post Published Photos of Armenian Female Cadets

• 03.23.2017, 20:20
•  America,  NKR

© THE WASHINGTON POST/LENA MUCHA

The Washington Post published a photo report with the students of the Stepanakertk Higher Military School.

In the photo report of the German photographer Lena Mucha, who visited the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic last year, the daily life of young Armenian cadets is presented.

Last year, clashes in a decades-old conflict between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces in the Caucasus region motivated a number of young women and girls to challenge traditional gender roles and pick up arms."They are groundbreakers, facing resistance from many conservatives because they decided to go to a career where women are still not accepted," photographer Lena Mucha told In Sight.

In Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, 23 female recruits entered the military academy in 2014, the first year women were accepted. A year later in Nagorno-Karabakh, girls joined the military high school in Stepanakert for the first time, Mucha reports.