Natig Mammadzade, Doctor of Philosophy in History.
On January 22, 1920, APC Foreign Minister F. Kh. Khoyski sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and declared: “I received information from my government that on January 19, the troops of the Armenian government, together with armed groups, started offensive operations from Zangezur in the direction of Shusha province, all Muslim villages along their route were destroyed, 9 of them were destroyed in recent days…it seems that the Armenian troops, fulfilling a certain plan of their government, began to destroy the Muslim villages again, subjecting the inhabitants to inhuman massacres. Such disregard of the obligations undertaken by the Armenian government, completely devaluing the already reached agreements, deprives my government of certainty and the possibility to settle the existing relations through peace negotiations…
Source: Genocide of Azerbaijanis living in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan (1918-1920) Baku – 2017 pp. 56-342
