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Genocides committed by Hamazasp in Guba district. (May 1-9)
In 1918, on the instructions of the head of the Baku soviet dashnak bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan, a group of 3000 dashnak Hamazasp and Armenians, sent to Guba district committed unprecedented genocides against the civilian population in order to suppress the national movement and establish for their planning government. Historical documents show that Hamazasp made a threatening appeal to the population of the city after the invasion of Guba, which consisted of about 20000 people and about 10000 houses. Hamazasp in the Ancient Guba Square, around the Jhuma Mosque, clearly states the purpose of his visit to Guba:
“I am a hero of the Armenian people and a defender of its interests. I did not come here to establish law and order, to establish the Soviet government. My aim is to destroy all muslims living in the area from the shores of the caspian sea to Shah mountain, to destroy your homeland to reveal to you what we did in Shamakhi”.
Witness statements and archival documents of the time show that Armenians beheaded the family of 14 people of Karbala Mammad Taghi oqhlu, 5 families of Mohammad Rasul oqlu in Guba, Bibikhanim, wife of Haji Dadashbala Gasim oghlu and his son Abdul Gasimi, burned them alive in Karbalai Abba. He tore his son and two daughters, Hokuma and Bustan, together with the child in his arms, and mashadi Ganbar, the son of mullah Mohammad Saleh, his wife and five infants.
Haji Ismail Orujov, a resident of Guba, wrote in his explanation that according to the cleric who buried the dead in the city, he himself believed that the bodies of 2800 people had been buried. During the events, more than 2153 houses were destroyed and burned, more than 24 mosques, 5 caravanserais, 152 warehouses, 166 haystacks, 68 stables, 312 shops, 17 mills, 4 workshops, 4 teahouses and 284 other buildings and historical and religious monuments were destroyed or burned. According to the stuff of 3 volumes and 451 pages of investigative materials collected by the Emergency Commission of Inquiry gangs of the Baku Soviet under the command of dashnak Hamazasp, consisting mainly of Armenians, killed more than 16000 Azerbaijan’s Turks in Guba district in 9 days was burned and destroyed 167 villages.

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