The event was attended by the Rector of Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Associate Professor Rufat Azizov, as well as the university’s faculty members and students.
Opening the event, the Deputy Director of the Genocide Memorial Complex, Mehriban Aliyeva, spoke about the importance of studying the events of 1918—one of the tragic chapters in Azerbaijan’s history—and passing this knowledge on to future generations. She also provided participants with information about the activities of the Complex.
Afterwards, the Rector of Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Associate Professor Rufat Azizov, emphasized in his speech that the March 1918 massacres, in terms of their brutality and scale, are among the bloodiest tragedies not only in the history of Azerbaijan but also in human history. He stated that Armenian armed groups, taking advantage of the situation, carried out mass killings of civilians regardless of age or gender. Along with tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis, thousands of people belonging to Lezgin, Jewish, Russian, Avar, and Talysh ethnic groups were killed, stabbed, and even burned alive. National architectural monuments, schools, hospitals, mosques, and cultural heritage sites were destroyed, and a large part of Baku was reduced to ruins.
At the end of the event, students toured the museum of the Memorial Complex and received detailed information about documents, photographic materials, and archaeological findings related to the genocide.
