Baku, Azerbaijan, March 31. The Embassy of
Türkiye shared a post in connection with March 31—the Day of the
Genocide of Azerbaijanis, Trend reports via the embassy’s X publication.
“On the anniversary of the horrific massacre committed by
Armenian Dashnaks in collaboration with Bolsheviks against
Azerbaijanis on March 31, 1918, we solemnly honor the memory of the
victims of this tragedy,” the publication reads.
One of these terrible events occurred from March through April
1918. Dozens of thousands of peaceful Azerbaijanis were brutally
killed only on the basis of their nationality during these events,
which went down in the history of Azerbaijan as the genocide of
March 31.
One hundred and seven years ago, Armenian Dashnaks and
Bolsheviks committed unprecedented atrocities against the
Azerbaijani population in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Karabakh, Zangazur,
Nakhchivan, Lankaran, Ganja, and other regions, killing over 70,000
people with extreme violence, including women, old people, and
children, burning the villages, and expelling the inhabitants from
their homes.
Armenian armed formations wiped out 229 villages in Baku
province, 272 in Ganja province, 115 in Zangazur province, and 157
villages in Karabakh of Azerbaijan.
Most of the population in the territory of present-day Armenia,
that is, living in the lands of Western Azerbaijan, about 565,000
people, were brutally killed or expelled from the lands of their
ancestors as a result of the genocide committed from 1918 through
1920 by Armenian Andranik’s bandit detachments against
Azerbaijanis.
Numerous masterpieces of national architecture, schools,
hospitals, mosques, and other monuments were destroyed.
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