Thousands of people protested in Azerbaijan calling for war after the latest clashes with neighboring Armenia.
Demonstrators marched through Baku last night, demanding the government deploy the army, and some even entered the national parliament.
Demonstrators gathered in a square in Baku waving the flag of Azerbaijan and calling for the mobilization of the army to take over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, the BBC reports today.
A small group entered Parliament and reportedly smashed windows and chandeliers before being chased out by security forces and police using water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd outside the building.
This is the largest public gathering in Azerbaijan in recent years, and media reports mention a figure of around 30.000 people.
The two neighbors in the south of the Caucasus have been in conflict, sometimes armed, with casualties, over Nagorno-Karabakh - a breakaway region of Azerbaijan controlled by Armenian forces - since the 1994 war, and attempts at international mediation to resolve the problem have stalled.
In the last conflict, 16 people died, and the escalation took place over the weekend when tanks and artillery took part in the fighting.
At least 11 Azerbaijani soldiers and one civilian were killed, while Armenia said four of its soldiers were killed.
The tensions are the result of the conflict from 2016, and the two countries have been fighting over the disputed territory for four days.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been trying to mediate the conflict for a long time, while the MINSK group (France, Russia and the USA) is trying to broker a truce.
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