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EU lawmakers approve a resolution that accuses Azerbaijan of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" against the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, and urges the bloc to impose sanctions on Baku. According to the resolution, the European Parliament "considers that the current situation amounts to ethnic cleansing and strongly condemns threats and violence committed by Azerbaijani troops". IMAGES
Families of ethnic Armenians carrying their belongings in bags arrive in the Armenian city of Goris and receive food and water at a refugee centre after they left the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, days after Azerbaijan launched an offensive. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside government offices in Yerevan hours after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan slammed calls for a "coup" in Armenia. Armenia's opposition has accused Pashinyan of being weak on Karabakh, a region mostly populated by ethnic Armenians over which Yerevan and Baku have been locked in a dispute over decades. IMAGES
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev mourns at Eternal Flame monument during memorial day for soldiers killed in Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Baku said Thursday that nearly 2,800 of its soldiers were killed in recent fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, the first details it has released of military losses in weeks of clashes with Armenian forces. IMAGES
The Armenians heave freshly-slaughtered pigs into the back of a van as they rush to pack every single one of their possessions before Azerbaijani forces arrive. As the village of Nor Maragha empties, even an entire house is loaded onto a flatbed truck so the incoming Azerbaijanis have nothing left to recover. IMAGES
Images filmed from a car driving on the road as journalists enter to the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert in Armenian, at the same time as Azerbaijani officials. The AFP team is reporting from the former breakaway region on a government press tour. IMAGES
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