Its public television Azerbaijan broadcast footage of excavators demolishing the building that once housed the breakaway enclave's Armenian parliament Nagorno Karabakh.
The live-streamed demolition, with giant metal calipers ripping through the walls of the ruined building, underscores the fact that Baku has regained control of the enclave after its forces retook it last year and more than 100,000 Armenian residents fled the area.
The Nagorno-Karabakh was de facto independent from Baku after the war that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijan's state media reported that the parliament building, along with a neighboring building that it housed the association of Armenian war veteranswere demolished because they had been built “illegally”.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of ethnic cleansing, which Baku denies, insisting that Armenian residents of the enclave they are welcome and can remain on this territory. For their part, Karabakh Armenians say they left en masse because they do not feel safe in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev staged a military parade in November in the central square of the Karabakh capital, near the parliament building, and was seen trampling an Armenian separatist flag. Armenians accuse Azerbaijan of destroying their cultural heritage in areas it controls, which Baku denies.
Source: News Beast
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