Today, March 31, is the Day of the Genocide of Azerbaijanis. 108 years have passed since the March 31 genocide committed against Azerbaijanis by Armenian Dashnaks together with the Bolsheviks. The Armenians, who skillfully used the February and October coups in Russia in 1917, managed to realize their claims under the Bolshevik banner. In the mass massacres that lasted from March 30 to April 2, 1918, the mass massacres initiated in Baku by Armenian Bolshevik groups led by Stepan Shaumyan resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, including many elderly people, women and children. The peaceful Azerbaijani population killed in those days was exterminated solely because of their nationality. The Armenians set fire to houses and burned people alive. They destroyed national architectural gems, schools, hospitals, mosques and other monuments and turned a large part of Baku into ruins.
The genocide of Azerbaijanis was carried out with particular cruelty in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba districts, Karabakh, Zangezur, Nakhchivan, Lankaran and other regions of Azerbaijan. In these areas, the civilian population was massively murdered, villages were burned, and national cultural monuments were destroyed and destroyed.
After the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, special attention was paid to the March events of 1918. On July 15, 1918, the Council of Ministers adopted a decision to establish an Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry to investigate this tragedy. The commission investigated the March genocide, the atrocities in Shamakhi at the initial stage, and the grave crimes committed by Armenians in the territory of the Iravan province. A special body was created under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey these truths to the world community. March 31, 1919 and 1920, was twice marked as a Day of National Mourning by the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. This was the first attempt in history to give a political assessment to the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis and the occupation of our lands that had lasted for more than a century. However, the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic did not allow this work to be completed.
On March 26, 1998, President Heydar Aliyev signed a decree \u201cOn the Genocide of Azerbaijanis\u201d. Since that day, March 31 has been marked as the Day of the Genocide of Azerbaijanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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