After the Second World War, in 1948, with the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the convention on “the prevention and punishment of the crimes of genocide”, December 9 is celebrated as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Genocide. The purpose of the convention is not only to perpetuate the memory of the victims of the genocide, but also to draw the attention of the world community to the issues of punishing the perpetrators of this grave crime.
Over the past 200 years, the Azerbaijani people have also suffered from many tragedies and genocides. One of such terrible events was the attempt of the Armenians, who took advantage of the situation in Russia during the First World War, under the banner of Bolshevism to achieve their desires. Since the beginning of 1918, the forces of the Dashnaks-Bolsheviks with particular cruelty killed thousands of residents of the Muslim population of Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Karabakh, Zangezur, Nakhchivan, Lankaran and other territories of Azerbaijan only for their national and religious affiliation.
But the Armenian vandalism on Azerbaijani lands did not end there. The Khojaly genocide, committed by the armed forces of Armenia on the night of February 25-26, 1992, during the 1st Karabakh war, entered the history of Azerbaijan as one of the most tragic pages of our history.
For the purpose of political and legal assessment of the acts of genocide, by the decree of Heydar Aliyev dated March 26, 1998, March 31 was declared the Day of the Genocide of Azerbaijanis.
The Guba Genocide Memorial Complex, which has been functioning since 2013, has the goal of bringing to the attention of the world community the criminal acts committed by Armenian nationalists in 1918 throughout Azerbaijan, preserving the national memory of future generations of our people and perpetuating
