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“In Nagorno-Karabakh, the fighting has stopped and the exodus has started. Ethnic Armenians are rushing to leave, before much of this area is handed to Azerbaijan. For these Armenian soldiers, defeat is hard to swallow, everyone here has lost comrades,” the BBC News says in a video, showing how Armenians are leaving their homes.

Armenia was given less than a week to vacate the land, the report says.

Sargis is packing up and taking absolutely everything with him, even all the windows.

“I feel so much pain, you can’t imagine,” Sargis tells BBC’s Steve Rosenberg. “I don’t know where to go. I have seven children, but I have no home.”

The video next show Dadivank monastery in the town of Kelbajar, where there are silent prayers, but within days Azerbaijan will control the town.

“The ancient monastery in Dadivank is proof, say people here, that this land was and is Armenian,” the reporter says.

“And if they must leave now, some Armenians are leaving nothing behind. The Badalyan family are destroying their home, so that no Azerbaijani can move into it,” the BBC says.

“I built this house from scratch. I can’t leave it to anyone. We’ve taken whatever we can, and now I am just going to burn it. If my children can’t use this house, then no-one can,” the father of the family says.

“There is nothing these people can do about this peace agreement. There is nothing they can do about losing this land. The only thing they can do is make sure they leave nothing behind for Azerbaijan. A peace agreement may have ended the war, but the hatred keeps burning,” Steve Rosenberg says. 

"If my children can’t use this house, then no-one can." Some Armenian residents of Kalbajar region - soon to be handed over to Azerbaijan - burned their houses today to stop them falling into Azeri hands. Our report for @BBCNews at 10 - with @BBCSteveR. pic.twitter.com/oldIotYmDi

— Will Vernon (@BBCWillVernon) November 12, 2020