Armenia is on fire. Dozens of people were injured in violent incidents that erupted today Wednesday during an anti-government demonstration outside the country’s parliament. Police used stun grenades to disperse crowds besieging parliament demanding the prime minister’s resignation Nicole Pashinian, according to an AFP photographer in Yerevan.

The Ministry of the Interior announced the arrest of 60 protesters who refused to comply with police orders.

The anti-government demonstration, which was organized as a protest against the granting of territory to Azerbaijan, turned episodic when some demonstrators attempted to break the police cordon.

The protest against Prime Minister Pashinyan was led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan who, addressing the protesters earlier, denounced the “illegal, unilateral and humiliating” land concessions from Armenia.

The Armenian Prime Minister defends the recent concession of four border communities in Azerbaijan, calling it necessary to avoid a new conflict with Baku.

Armenia and Azerbaijan fought twice over its control Nagorno Karabakh, one in the 1990s won by the Armenians and one in 2020 that ended with an Azeri victory. Baku launched a surprise offensive in 2023, recapturing the enclave and ousting the Armenian separatists who had ruled it for nearly three decades.