Boy with a toy gun overlooking a dump. Unfinished building of a refugee settlement. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2005 Passing just ten miles from Nagorno-Karabakh, the area of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia, where a bloody conflict killed nearly twenty thousand people and created at least a million refugees, through Georgia with its pestering wounds from the break-away Abkhazia and South-Ossetia, and yet only seventy miles off the horrific conflict in Chechnya, the pipeline is laid upon a minefield of simmering war zones. These unresolved conflicts that can flare up anytime into a full-fledged war, have produced an entire nation of refugees who still continue to live in inhuman conditions of abandoned hotels, unfinished shells of buildings, train cars, dugout animal shelters, hospitals, schools and other improvised housing. Over a decade of no progress on peace settlement, these people are stuck in a limbo of muffled hopes that their lands would be liberated and they could return home. This disabling state of dependency has become their way of life, an identity of a “refugee” and not a citizen deeply rooted in their psyche is being passed on to the new generations. In the international arena these frozen conflicts have lost their urgency. Diplomatic peace talks are in the dead-end and too much oil is at stake to begin a new war. But while the West is doing oil business with benevolent dictators, millions of poverty-stricken war victims are being politically duped and their numbers are growing with another child being born into the nationhood of a refugee.