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Tbilisi State University hosts seminar on Azerbaijani Genocide of 1918

31 March 2009 [16:44] - TODAY.AZ
On March 31, the I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) held a scientific seminar on the March 1918 events at the initiative of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia.

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia, Doctor of Law, Professor Namig Aliyev made an opening address and detailed the tragic events.

Doctor of historical sciences, TSU professor Guram Lordkipanidze (theme "The events of March 1918 in Azerbaijan and Georgia"), Doctor of historical sciences, Sukhumi State University professor Guram Markhuliya (theme "Dashnaktsutiun in an effort to create the Armenian ethnic space"), doctor of historical sciences, Sukhumi State University professor Teymuraz Papaskiri (theme "The South Caucasus in 1918 and force destabilizing the situation in South Caucasus") and other historian scholar spoke at the seminar.

A book by Aydın Balayev - "The events of March 1918 in Azerbaijan" - was presented at the seminar.

On March 31, 1918, Armenian Dashnaks sponsored by their allies Bolsheviks committed genocide of the peaceful Azerbaijani. Some 12,000 inhabitants were killed in Baku alone.

/Trend News/

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