Azerbaijan special forces return to the hilltop above Shusha
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Three decades after he fell victim to a bout of wartime cancel culture, the bust of Uzeyir Hacibeyli, composer of Azerbaijan s national anthem, is back in what fans consider its rightful place.
In Soviet times, the bronze sculpture of the country s greatest classical musician stood proudly in the centre of Shusha, the town regarded as the cultural capital of the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh.
But after Nagorno Karabakh fell into the control of Armenian separatists in the early 1990s, Hacibeyli s bust was used as target practice by gunmen and sold to a scrap metal dealer in Georgia, from where it was salvaged by Azerbaijan s culture ministry.
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