On March 31, 2022, the State Service for Protection, Development and Restoration of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan Republic and the "Genocide Memorial Complex" in Guba organized a commemorative event dedicated to the 104th anniversary of the March 31 genocide of Azerbaijanis. / 31 March, 2022
Mr. Azad Jafarli, Chief of of the State Service for Protection, Development and Restoration of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan Republic, Mr. Ziyaddin Aliyev, Head of the Executive Power of Guba Region, Ms. Tugba Sarayonlu, Representative of the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan, Archeology, Ethnography, and Anthropology of ANAS Director General of the Institute, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Abbas Seyidov, Ph.D Rakhshanda Bayramova, Director of the Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba, state and government officials, community leaders of national minorities living in the country and media representatives attended. Participants of the event first visited the monument to National Leader Heydar Aliyev, and then laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the genocide at the Memorial Complex.
In addition to visiting the complex’s museum, participants were introduced to exhibitions based on the 1905 genocides brought from the National Archives of the Republic of Turkey, as well as photos of religious and cultural monuments destroyed in liberated territories, as well as books and booklets on the 1918 genocide.
A minute of silence was observed at the start of the event in memory of the genocide victims, as well as the sons of the Fatherland who died for the freedom and sovereignty of our lands. There were speeches about heinous crimes of aggressive Armenian nationalists against our people in the twentieth century, such as the acts of mass genocide on national and ethnic grounds and the complete annihilation of Azerbaijanis in the Baku province in March 1918.
Tens of thousands of people visited the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex, where they laid flowers at the “Memorial Monument” erected in memory of the genocide victims.
