The conflict in Azerbaijan between Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris has left nearly two hundred people dead. A five-week strike has seriously affected industry and the rail link with Armenia is closed.

Report shows the city of Baku on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Red carnations marking the place in the city where thirty-seven citizens were killed by the Soviet Army on 19th January this year.

Casualties in hospital.

A crowd outside a building flying a black flag.

Soldiers in a tank and line-up of military tanks.

Crowd in the street, including a woman crying.

Military headquarters in Baku.

Empty streets at night because of the curfew.

Empty factory due to strike.

Soldier outside a power station.

People filing past a mountain of red carnations in a park above the city and leaving flowers.

To camera Charlie Bird who says that yesterday alone, one and a half million people filed through the graveyard in the centre of Baku.

The reporter is Charlie Bird.

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