A house is seen set on fire by departing Ethnic Armenians, in an area which had held under their military control but is soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan, in the village of Cherektar in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 14, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
CHAREKTAR, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister's dining room table in the small village of Charektar.
As the flames took hold with the help of strips of cardboard, he used a wooden chair to smash the low-slung one-storey house's windows and bed sheets to try to spread the blaze, which soon consumed the whole house.
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