Azerbaijani Ombudsman sends statement on March 31 – Azerbaijani Genocide Day to int’l organizations

The statement reports that the world community which aims to combat international terrorism must give a unbiased political legal assessment to violations against Azerbaijani people and criminals must be punished, the Ombudsman Administration told Trend News on March 29. Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova urged the authoritative international organizations to support Azerbaijan's truth position. Suleymanova believes the authoritative international organizations will impose sanctions on Armenia which included genocide in its state policy, Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, refugees' and IDP's rights will be restored, as well as hostages and captives will be released.

The statement has been sent to the UN Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, its Special Envoy for children and military conflict problems. UN High Commissioners on Human Rights, OSCE, Council of Europe, International and European Ombudsman Institutions, Asian Ombudsman Association, International Peace Bureau, Universal Peace Federation, different countries' ombudsmen, Azerbaijani Embassies in foreign countries, foreign embassies in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan diaspora organizations.

On March 31, Azerbaijan marks the Day of the Azerbaijani Genocide.

In March 1918, Stepan Shaumyan's Dashnak-Bolshevik government seized power and launched a genocide against the Azerbaijani people. In March to April, ethnic Azerbaijanis were slaughtered in Baku, Shamakhi and other regions. During the period, Turkey offered assistance to Azerbaijan and rescued the people from being killed by Armenians.

March 31 commemorates the tragic events that took place in recent Azerbaijani history.

The massacre, repression and eviction of Azerbaijanis from their lands is a sorrowful page in 20th-Century world history.

According to a decree signed by former Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev in 1998, March 31 became the Day of the Azerbaijani Genocide.

/Trend News/