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Round table â€œCrimes against humanity: Shamakhi genocideâ€ held in Baku - PHOTO

Round table â€œCrimes against humanity: Shamakhi genocideâ€ held in Baku - <font color=red>PHOTO</font>

10 March 2012 09:26 (UTC +04:00)

According to APA, the round table was organized by the Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan (ACSDA) and the Joint Working Group for Qualifying International Standards on Human Rights. Addressing the round table, ACSDA president, MP Elkhan Suleymanov said Azerbaijan has not conducted necessary work to inform the world about the genocide acts perpetrated by the Armenians against the Azerbaijani people in March, 1918. â€œThe international community was informed about it only in recent years. Armenians had started to settle in Shamakhi since 1828. Due to the Russiaâ€™s imperial policy, Armenians moved from Iran and Turkey to the regions of Northern Azerbaijan, including Shamakhi. Armenians perpetrated genocides against Azerbaijani people in March-April, 1918 and killed 8027 Azerbaijanis in 53 villages of Shamakhiâ€.

The lawmaker said Armenians put the so-called â€œSumgayit genocideâ€ issue on agenda in California. He called all Azerbaijani politicians and public community to work against the Armeniansâ€™ anti-Azerbaijan propaganda.

PhD in history Maharram Zulfugarli reminded about the Guba mass grave found in 2007. He said it needs to conduct excavation work in Shamakhi to find out the facts about the Armenian vandalism committed in 1918. â€œAccording to some views, residents of Shamakhi killed by Armenians in 1918 were buried in Kalakhana and Suleyman valleys. New mass graves can be found during the excavation work in these territories in the futureâ€.

The round table is continued.