The view shows burning house in the village of Karvachar, the self proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Armenians torch their homes on land ceded to Azerbaijan. After years of recurrent conflicts between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces, full-scale fighting began in late September this year. Two days after Azerbaijan announced it had taken Shusha, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russia-brokered cease-fire under which territory that Armenia occupies outside the formal borders of Nagorno-Karabakh will be gradually ceded.