Aggressive Armenian nationalists have been carrying out a genocidal policy against our people for nearly two hundred years.In order to expel Azerbaijanis from their historical lands and create a mythical "Greater Armenia" in these territories with the help of their foreign patrons, the Azerbaijani and Turkish peoples have been subjected to systematic ideological and military aggression by Armenians for decades. The centuries-old history of our people has been grossly falsified, our cultural monuments and toponyms have been appropriated by Armenians. The genocidal policy has been carried out in different forms at different times and has been accompanied by mass murders and military operations. The forced change of the demographic situation in Karabakh and Zangezur at the expense of Armenians resettled from Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the first half of the 19th century, the mass massacres of the Azerbaijani population in 1905 and 1918, the establishment of the Armenian state on the historical Azerbaijani lands in 1918 and the concession of the city of Yerevan, one of the most important cultural centers of Azerbaijan, as its capital to Armenia, the transfer of Zangezur to the Armenians by the Soviet government in the 1920s, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their ancestral lands in the territory of present-day Armenia in 1948-1953, and other facts are tragic and bloody pages of the history of genocide. In 1988, Armenian nationalists, instigated by the then USSR leadership and their foreign supporters, launched an open aggression against Azerbaijan in order to forcibly annex Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, and soon after, they began full-scale military operations. The Khojaly tragedy committed by Armenian military units in February 1992 will remain an unprecedented act of genocide and a black spot in the history of humanity due to its cruelty and ruthlessness. When recalling the chronology of the genocidal policy carried out against Azerbaijanis, the scale and methodology of the atrocities and crimes committed against our people cannot but cause amazement and indignation. For centuries, ethnic cleansing, deportation and genocide have been committed against our people by Armenian nationalists. One of the most terrible tragedies inflicted on the Azerbaijani people was the mass massacres and acts of vandalism committed by Armenian-Dashnak armed groups in Baku, other cities and settlements included in the Baku province, Karabakh, Zangezur, Nakhchivan, Shirvan, Iravan and other regions in March-April 1918. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed with particular cruelty precisely because of their ethnic and religious affiliation, and cultural monuments, historical buildings and mosques were destroyed. The genocide in the Guba region took place in April-May 1918. Those events were actually a policy of national genocide carried out by the Bolsheviks together with the Dashnaks against Azerbaijanis. The massacres carried out in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Lankaran and other areas in March-April 1918.
Qəribə Məmmədova. ADPU- nin dosenti. f.ü.f.d
Gariba Mammadova. Associate Professor of the Pedagogical University of Azerbaijan. Ph.D
