Wednesday, 15 July 2020_Police in Azerbaijan have arrested dozens of protesters who broke into the country’s parliament building during a demonstration against Armenia.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, on Wednesday to show solidarity with the army, which suffered casualties during exchanges of fire with Armenia on the two countries’ border this week.
Demonstrators marched to the parliament building while holding national flags and chanting “Karabakh!” and “Our homeland is indivisible!”
Some of the protesters then attempted to enter the parliament building as the crowd became agitated, Reuters reported.
Police used rubber batons to stop them and arrested dozens. Their action did not appear to be intended as a protest against the authorities.
Eleven Azeri soldiers and a civilian, along with four Armenian troops, have been killed in clashes at the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia since Sunday.
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