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Grandchild of Stepan Shahumian comments on 23 bodies pulled out from grave in Sahil Park

27 January 2009 12:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. It is a legend occurred during Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict that Stepan Shahumian along with other commissars were executed by a firing squad in Akhcha-Kuymaand taken to India by Englishmen, Tatyana Shahumian, grandchild of Shahumian gave an interview to Kommersant newspaper, APA reports.
Tatiana, Head of Research Center on India at the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences stated that researches were carried out on kidnapping of his grandfather to India.
â€˜Orientalist Leonid Mitrokhin proved that these reports were false. After shooting to death in Akhcha-Kuymaand, there could happen everything during two years when Baku commissars were buried in Baku. It is impossible that all of them were not buried in Baku. There is a documentary film about the bodies in archive. Moreover, my grandmother and other relatives participated in the funeral,â€ she added.
Tatian commented on 23 bodies pulled out from the grave.
â€œIf there are not bodies of three commissars in the grave, it can happen after 1920. Stalin hated my grandfather. Mirjafar Bagirov, Secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan Communist Party wanted to bring about repression against our family in Moscow and tried to prove that we were enemies of Azerbaijanisâ€, she added.
Baku Mayorâ€™s Office reported that 23 bodies were found during destruction of monument in Sahil Park.