On Genocide Committed by Armenians Against Azerbaijani Population

31 March has been marked as a day of genocide of the Azerbaijani population at government level since 1998. This calendar embraces the tragic events which took place in Azerbaijan history over past hundred years being in the memory of the people. Mass destruction of the Azerbaijanis undergone repression is one of the tragic pages of world history in the 20th century. The guilty of these tragedies is Armenian chauvinism reflecting all foul means for realization of a crazy idea - creation of "The Great Armenia".

The Armenian terrorists as being cruel and crafty executors of their repulsive policy committed genocide to the Azerbaijanis many times in the history. The genocide realized by the Armenians to the Azerbaijani population in 1918-1920 years which perpetually engraved in blood history of our people, not only is one of the most tragic-historical occurrences of Azerbaijan, but the whole world history. So that in March-April 1918 the Armenians committed murder of the Azerbaijanis (50 thousand people) in Baku, Shamakhi, Quba, Mugan and Lankaran and deported 10 thousands of people from their own lands. Approximately, 30 ths. Azerbaijani were killed severely in Baku city. 58 villages were ruined and 7 thousand people (1653 women, 965 childen) were destructed in Shamakhi. 122 villages in Quba, 150 in upland part of Karabakh, 115 in Zangezur, 211 in Yerevan and 92 villages in Kars province were destroyed completely and execution of the local population was realized by disregarding the age and sex. In one of repeated addresses ("Ashkhadavor''/"Amakchi" newspaper, 231, dated 2 November 1919) of Yerevan Azerbaijanis it was mentioned that in this historical city and surroundings 88 villages had been destructed, 1920 house burned and 131970 people killed.

For the first time these tragedies were politically evaluated by the initiative of Nationwide Leader of Azerbaijan Haydar Aliyev at the end of the 20th century.

Not only in 1918-1920 years, but still in 1905, 1915 and afterwards in 1948-1953 years the Azerbaijanis were exiled from their own ethnic-historical places, thousands of people were exposed to liquidation, hundreds and thousands of the Azerbaijanis' settlements were obliterated, historical-cultural wealth were ruined and misappropriated.

New stage of genocide to the Azerbaijanis started since the ends of 1980s. The Azerbaijanis more than 250 thousand were deported from 185 settlements of Armenia in 1988-1991 years.

As a result of occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and 7 outside administrative regions (20% of the territory of Azerbaijan) by armed forces of Armenia, people more than 50 thousand were wounded and crippled. About one million refugees and IDPs are still living in other regions of the country.

As a result of military aggression citizens of Azerbaijan more than 5000, including 55 children, 326 women and the aged total 409 became missed. In February 1992 another genocide so called Khojali genocide was committed by Armenian terrorists to the Azerbaijanis being uncommon in the history. During the occupation of Khojali region 613 people, including 63 children, 106 women, the aged total 70 were killed with especial cruelty and torture and hundreds of people were captivated and taken hostage as well as became missed.

In general as a consequence of the occupation of Azerbaijan territories, more than 900 settlements were plundered, burnt and destroyed, 6 thousand industrial and agricultural enterprises and other plants were demolished, 150 dwelling houses with gross floor area more than 9 mln. m2 were destructed, 4366 social infrastructure facilities and 695 medical units were ruined as well. Furthermore, 927 libraries, 464 historical monuments and museums, more than 100 archaeological monuments, 6 public theatres and concert studios were racked. More than 40 thousand valuables and rare exhibits were stolen from the plundered museums.

Till now the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions - 822, 853, 874 and 884 on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In spite of demands for withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from occupied regions of Azerbaijan Republic as envisaged by the resolutions, these demands have not been implemented yet.

Appeal by the "Khazar" International Scientific Research Center to US Congressmen, European Union, UN and world community over recognition of act of genocide committed by Armenians time after time against Azerbaijani people

Over the past two centuries thanks to the auspices of the Russian Empire the Azerbaijani people were repeatedly exposed to merciless aggressions, murders and plunders, in a genuine sense of the world, to the physical and moral genocide by Armenians. Yet at the first half of the 19th century by the treaties of Gulustan (1813) and Turkmanchay (1828) the deportation of Azeri Turks from our lands and the policy of "ethnic cleansing" began. As a result of public and underground struggle for realization of "great Armenia" figment, in 1905-1907 bloody actions against the Azeri Turks beginning from Baku up to the present Armenia spread all over the cities and countries. At that period thousands of Azeri Turks were murdered and hundreds of residential areas were destroyed and ruined. The world community should be familiarized with the following facts and realize the genuine truth: Genocide means to destroy the generation of a nation, race, a tribe and a clan. Late in the 19th century and early in the 20th century were the periods of the most terrible tortures, massacres, refugees and moral genocide in the Azeri Turks' lives in the territory that is called the present Armenia. The Armenian-Turkish conflicts and the anti-Turkish mood in 1894-1896 made their outcry in Azeri Turks' genocide during the Armenian-Moslem war in 1905. In 1914-1916 in the South of Azerbaijan - in Khoy, Salmas and Dilman regions 150 thousand; in Eastern Anatolia - in Kars, Sarigamish, Ardahan, Kaghizman and Erzurum regions 200 thousand Azeri Turks were killed. In 1917-1920 in Baku, Nakhchivan, Guba, Shamakhy and Ganja about 40 thousand Azeri Turks were exposed to genocide. In general, over 2,500,000 Azeri Turks succumbed to genocide. As a result of the deportation 1,350,000 Azeri Turks were driven out of their native lands. Hovanes Apresian, who was one of the most active participants of the genocide committed by the Armenian bandits in 1918-1920, made his confession on the bloody crime facts they committed in Iravan province, in Sharur-Dereleyez, Surmali, Kars, Sarigamish and the other regions and in his memoirs titled "There are such people", which was published by American Ramsden Hardill in the Indianapolis city of the United States in 1928, he stated how they had tortured the peaceful Azerbaijani population: "The war began against the Turks within a short period of time turned into the warfare for complete destruction of the Turks' generation." These atrocities committed against unarmed, innocent and peaceful Azeri Turks are the obvious confessions of existence of genocide. A German writer by surname Kulner, who was one of the witnesses of the Azeri Turks to have been exposed to genocide by Armenians, seven years later, in 1925 wrote: "Armenians were mainly encroaching the settlements inhabited by Moslems and killing everyone they came across. They were cutting the people with swords, piercing them with bayonets, burning the houses, throwing the children into the burning houses and watching them burning alive. They were putting the three-four-day babies on the tip of bayonets. A few days after the massacre 87 Moslem bodies were excavated out of one trench. Their ears and noses were cut off, their abdomens were pierced and sexual organs were sliced. Armenians were merciless both towards children and elderly people". A. A. Lalaian wrote: "The Dashnaksutyun Party within the period of 30 months (from May 28, 1918 till November 29, 1920) of its power destroyed 35% of Armenian and 60% of Turkish population in the Transcaucasus." English journalist Scotland Liddel, historian S. Suni, famous Richard Pipesin and the others, who were in Zangazur and Garabagh in 1919, mentioned the facts on the Turkish genocide in their works and these facts mentioned are, no doubt, familiar to the world community for ages. As a result of barbarism of General Andronik, the Commander of Armenian terrorist units, in 1918-1919 in Zangazur region 3,257 men, 2,276 women and 2,196 children were killed; 2,060 men, 794 women and 48 children were wounded. In the western region of Azerbaijan - in the territory of the present Armenia, at the beginning of the 20th century Azeri Turks used to live in 959 villages out of 1,301. However, at the end of the same century there were no Azeri Turks in those villages. At the beginning of the 20th century in the territory of present Armenia the number of Azeri Turks was more than 352,000. But today there is no Azeri Turk there. Under the enforcement of warmonger circles realizing brutally the program of "Armenia without Turks", in 1989-1994 a fictitious Upper Garabagh problem was put forward and 812,554 Azeri Turks were forcibly driven out of their native lands - motherland Azerbaijan. Every seventh person of the country's population became a refugee. The Armenian armed forces destructed and ruined 900 residential areas, 4,366 social objects, 690 schools, 280 nursery schools, 862 clubs, 982 libraries, 500 medical centers, 76 drug-stores, over 400,000 industrial and agricultural enterprises and hundreds of cultural monuments. Ten thousands of citizens of Azerbaijan were murdered and became disabled as well as were taken captives and hostages. The Khojaly tragedy, which has got no analogy in the 20th century, happened on February 26, 1992. The leading mass media and television channels in the world have covered this tragedy and brought this fact into the world community's notice. But unfortunately, these undeniable facts of genocide were not given a political and legal assessment in time. The lands of Azerbaijan were occupied and peaceful and innocent people were killed, but the world kept silence. Taking into account of all these terrors, tragedies and calamities, to which the Azerbaijani people were exposed, and in order not to enable Armenians, who have spread to different regions of the world, to commit genocide against any people under the slogan of "national fortune" and "great Armenia", we appeal to the parliaments of all states, peaceful forces, influential international organizations and call on everyone to confess the genocide of the Azeri Turks, to recognize the aggressor as it is and to give a political and legal assessment to the crimes committed

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