15,000 Azerbaijanis fall victim of genocide, committed by Armenians on March 30, 31 and April 1

Presidential Library of the Azerbaijan President`s Administration Department has prepared the electronic resource in Azerbaijani, English and Russian dedicated to 31 March, Azerbaijanis Genocide Day and deportation of Azerbaijanis.

According to Director of the Library Mayil Ahmadov, the electronic resource has been created to inform the world community about the genocide of Azerbaijanis.

The materials arranged in chronological order were made available for readers.

The electronic resource provides information about Armenians' attempts to establish a state on the historical lands of Azerbaijan, organization of the Armenian oblast, resettlement of Armenians from Iran and Turkey, massacres of 1905-1906, genocide of 1918-1920, massacres in Baku, Shemakha, Quba, Karabakh, Zangezur, deportation of Azerbaijanis in 1948-1953 and 1988-1989 and other bloody events.

As is seen from the documents and materials, throughout the last two centuries, our people have been widely subjected to massacres and genocide. By the help of their supporters, Armenians terminated thousands of villages, settlements and cities, where our compatriots lived, in the early 21st century, and attempted to execute their intentions to create "Great Armenia" at the expense of historical Azerbaijani lands.

About 130,000 Armenians, resettled from Iran and Turkey following the Russian-Iranian war of 1826-1828 and Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829, were mainly dislocated on the territories of Irevan, Nakhchivan and arabakh. 359 Azerbaijani villages were ruined in the result of these wars.

Of 1111 settlements, existing in the Armenian oblast, established on the territories of the Irevan and Nakhchivan khanates following the conclusion of Turkmenchay Treaty, Armenians lived only in 62 villages (around Armenian churches).

Following the October overthrow of 1917 Armenians in Russia, considering themselves the support of the bolshevik authorities in the Caucasus, captured powers in Baku under pretense of establishment of the Soviet party.

Armenians, who received medical aide from Bolshevik Russia, committed genocide on March 30, 31 and April 1 and killed 15,000 Azerbaijanis. Their aim was to capture Baku and become owner of its oil.

In March, April and May of the same year Armenians committed massacres in Shamakhi, Quba, Khachmaz, Aghsu, Kurdemir, Salyan, Lenkoran and brutally killed over 50,000 of our compatriots.

Armenians destroyed 58 villages in Shamakhi, 122 in Guba, 150 in the mountainous part of Karabakh, 115 in Zangazur, 211 in the Iravan province and 82 villages in Kars. Armenians killed more than 7 thousands people, as well as 1653 women and nearly one thousand children in Shamakhi and more than 130 thousands people were killed in the Iravan province. Armenian military units killed Azerbaijanis because of their national identity only, even burned alive peoples. They set on fire the houses, destroyed national architectural monuments, schools, hospitals, mosques and other buildings and reduced the most part of Baku to ruins.

In 1948-1953, over 100,000 Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical lands on the territory of present day Armenia by a resolution of the USSR government.

In 1988, Armenian nationalists making use of the negative attitude of the former USSR leadership towards Azerbaijan, along with the attempt to capture Nagorno Karabakh, on the basis of the secret instruction of the session of the Supreme Council of Armenia, drove our compatriots away from 170 settlements with Azerbaijani population and 94 settlements with mixed population (with Armenians) in period from 22 until 28 November of 1988 in 22 regions of the country, in the result of which over 200,000 Azerbaijanis, 18,000 Kurdish Muslims, over 1,000 Russian speaking people moved to Azerbaijan.

At the same time 216 Azerbaijanis, were brutally killed, thousands of women, children and elderly people, were injured and tens of thousands of people were subjected to burlglary.

The armed forces of Armenia captured 12 regions of Azerbaijan (20% of lands), terminated about 20,000 citizens of Azerbaijan, captured 4,000 people, with majority women, children and elderly people. In the result of Armenian aggression, about 1,000,000 Azerbaijanis were internally displaced. The Khojaly genocide, committed on February 26 of 1992, has no rivals in the world history.


Armenian vandals plundered over 4,000 industrial and agricultural establishments, 724 cities, villages and settlements, ruined over 180,000 flats and private houses of a total area of 6,000,000 square meters, about 1,000 educational establishments, nearly 3,000 cultural centers, including 927 libraries and over 700 medical centers.

Armenia, whose territory made up only 9,000 square meters on basis of the Batumi Treaty signed in 1918, brought it to 30,000 square kilometers in 1988 and currently it controls nearly 45,000 square kilometers of Azerbaijani lands along with the occupied territories.

After committing genocide against Azerbaijanis, driving them away from their historical lands, official Yerevan also committed a genocide of geographical names. All names of Turkic origin were changed, the villages, where our compatriots lived, were turned into a "dead zone" and their names were excluded from the list of settlements.

The materials about all these tragedies of our people, are collected and presented to readers in a systematic form and consistency to wide audience. The said electronic resource is regularly replenished by new materials, according to AzerTaj.

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