31 MARCH – DAY OF AZERBAIJANIS` GENOCIDE

The genocides repeatedly committed against the Azerbaijani people and has not received throughout many years its political-legal assessment, is one of the tragic pages of our history.

One of those terrible events – On March 30 and April 3, 1918, Baku Soviet and Dashnak Armenian armed forces brutally massacred Azerbaijani people in Baku city and various regions of Baku province, as well as in Shamakhi, Guba, Khachmaz, Lankaran, Hajigabul, Salyan, Zangazur, Karabakh, Nakhchivan and other areas.

According to official sources, about 12 thousand Azerbaijani people were brutally killed and tens of thousands went missing as a result of this genocide.

28 villages of Javanshir, and 17 villages of Jabrayil were completely burnt down, population was destroyed.

On April 29, 1918, 3 thousand of Azerbaijani people containing mostly women, children and the elderly were ambushed and killed near Gumru.

Armenian armed forces destroyed 115 Azerbaijani villages in Zangazur, killed 3257 men, 2276 women and 2196 children. In total, 10068 Azerbaijanis were killed or injured and became disabled, and 50000 became refugees in this region.

135 thousand of Azerbaijani people living in 199 villages of Iravan province were killed, and the villages were destroyed. Armenian armed forces then attacked Karabakh, 150 villages were destroyed and people were killed in the mountainous part of Karabakh in 1918-1920.

We commemorate the memory of the genocide victims with respect!

May their souls rest in peace!