Big powers had turned blind eye to those massacres - Azerbaijani official

  31 March 2017    Read: 1907
Big powers had turned blind eye to those massacres - Azerbaijani official
The bloody events of genocide against the humanity perpetrated by the Armenian executioners in the early 20th century and in 1918 should not be forgotten, Novruz Mammadov, Deputy Head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration and Chief of the Administration’s Foreign Relations Department, tweeted on Friday, AzVision.az reported.
“Regrettably, the big powers then had turned the blind eye to those massacres while the perpetrators of those crimes remained unpunished. Seizing such an opportunity, the Armenians had committed the Khojaly genocide in the late 20th century,” Mammadov wrote.

“We must inform the international community comprehensively, so that recurrence of such events in the future is prevented. The international community and the big powers must maintain a just position”, noted the Azerbaijani official.

March 31 is marked as the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis. The massacre that started in Baku on 30 March 1918 resulted in the deaths of 20,000 civilians, including women, children and elderly people.

During the massacre that lasted to April 2, Armenian Bolsheviks led by Stepan Shaumyan killed thousands of people, burnt Muslim shrines and confiscated the 400-million-manat estate of Baku residents. The policy of genocide against Azerbaijanis was not limited to only Baku. On March 31, Armenian dashnaks killed 8,027 Azerbaijanis, including 2,560 women and 1,277 children in 53 villages of Shamakhi region. Over 16,000 civilians were murdered in 162 villages of Guba district. Armenian dashnaks burnt thousands of villages in Lankaran, Mughan and Nagorno-Karabakh, killing thousands of people.

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