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.