Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

National Museum of Azerbaijan History has held a commemorative event devoted to the 31 March – Genocide Day of Azerbaijanis.

Event brought together museum employees, historian-scientists, students of Baku city secondary school N 39 and students of Azerbaijan State Fine Art Academy.

Event has begun with a minute of silence for memory of victims and sounding of National anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

A leading researcher of Foreign Relations and Scientific Work Department Bahman Karimov opened the meeting and spoke of mass massacres of our people and their being deported from their native lands.

Then, scientific secretary of the museum PhD in History Farhad Jabbarov noted that, having illusion of create “Great Armenia”, Armenian invaders have clearly carried out bloody actions against Azerbaijanis.

At the event, chief department of Northern Caucasus History PhD in History Vasif Gafarov brought to the attention of the participants following facts about the event: In 1918, during March-April months, over 30 thousand Azerbaijanis were killed in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Mugan and Lankaran by Armenian terrorists, more than 10 thousand people deported from their lands. "Only in Baku about 12 thousand Azerbaijanis were brutally killed, 58 villages were ruined in Shamakhy, about 7 thousand people (1653 women and 965 children) were destroyed. 168 villages in Guba, 150 in the mountainous part of Karabakh, 326 in Irevan province, and 92 in Kars province were razed to the ground."

In closing, students got familiar with exhibition created at the museum about Genocide of Azerbaijanis.

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