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Confessions of Stepan Shaumyan, the leader of the Baku Soviet at that time, who was the initiator and leader of the genocide against Azerbaijanis in 1918

Shaumyan himself openly confessed to the genocide of Azerbaijanis in March-April 1918. In his report to the Soviet Russian government after the tragic events of March 1918, he stated: “We took the opportunity … and launched an attack along the entire front … we already had an armed force – about 6,000 people. Dashnaktsutyun also had about 3-4 thousand national military units. They were under our subordination. The participation of the last one, in part, gave the civil war the character of a national massacre, which was not possible to avoid. We went to this consciously…. “
Source: Shaumyan S.G. Selected works. – M., 1978, v.2, p. 246
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Colonels of the General Command of the Gendarmerie of Turkey Mr. Nuradeddin Altintash, Mr. Ekrem Mengi and Mr. Onur Bakakhan visited the "Genocide Memorial Complex" in Guba.

First, the guests laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the 1918 genocide, and then got acquainted with the museum of the complex. The guests were also introduced to documents and photographs reflecting Armenian vandalism, and historical facts were brought to their attention. Mr. Ekrem Mengi, who made notes in the Book of Remembrance, said that he was very impressed by what he saw and asked Allah for mercy on the victims of the genocide. In conclusion, the military specialists were presented with books and booklets reflecting the events of the genocide.

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On May 18, the Guba branch of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University hosted an event entitled "Azerbaijan's Museums Yesterday and Today - Places of Storage of Our Cultural Values" on the occasion of the International Museum Day

Within the framework of the event, the opening of the Heydar Aliyev Center took place in the branch. Director of the “Genocide Memorial Complex” in Guba Rakhshenda Bayramova presented various books and albums reflecting the events of the genocide to the newly created Center .

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During the organization of the Genocide Memorial Complex, a scientific seminar dedicated to "May 18 International Museum Day" was held.

Aigun Guliyeva, a researcher of the Ethnography Department of the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan, spoke at the seminar with the topic “materials about Guba stored in the Ethnographic Fund of the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan”. During the lecture, A. Guliyeva, on the basis of documents preserved in the fund, as well as photographs, presented to the audience the collected materials on the history of Guba.

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May 18 - International Museum Day

Every year, May 18 is widely celebrated around the world as International Museum Day.
The celebration, founded by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to promote cultural exchange and cooperation between peoples, is held annually under different mottos. This year’s International Museum Day is dedicated to Museums for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
International Day of Museums was established in 1977 at the initiative of ICOM. The goal is to show how important museums are in the life of society.
This holiday is widely celebrated in Azerbaijan, which has an ancient history and rich culture.
The stormy processes in the socio-political and cultural life of Azerbaijan from the second half of the 19th century gave impetus to the organization of museum work. One of the first such museums was organized at the end of the 19th century in the school of the village of Nehram in Nakhchivan on the initiative and with the active participation of the famous writer Jalil Mammadguluzade.
At the beginning of the last century, closed museums were established in Baku at public schools, as well as at the Baku branch of the All-Russian Technical Society. However, with the exception of the museum in the village of Nehram, the named places acted in the interests of tsarism. It is no coincidence that valuable archaeological artifacts found in Azerbaijan were sent to museums in Tbilisi, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The first national museum in Azerbaijan, founded in 1919 during the time of the Democratic Republic, has been functioning as the Azerbaijan State Museum since 1920.
The exhibits of this museum were valuable works of art confiscated from Baku millionaires such as Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev, Murtuza Mukhtarov, Musa Nagiyev in the early years of Soviet power.
Since the 30s of the last century, one after another, state, memorial, traveling, literary, art, historical, musical, conservation, and theater museums have been created. In subsequent years, new museums began to operate in Azerbaijan.
In his native Shusha, liberated from the Armenian occupation, eight museums operated .. The State Museum of the History of Karabakh, the house of the genius composer Uzeyir Hajibeyli, the founder of our vocal art Bulbul, the famous musician and artist Mir Mohsun Navvab, the Shusha branch of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, are distinguished by a rich number of exhibits. Today, restoration work is underway there. Like the city of Agdam itself, the Aghdam Bread Museum, the only one in the USSR, was completely destroyed by Armenian vandals.
Azerbaijan has always taken care of national and moral values, including museum work. The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On Museums”, which entered into force on March 24, 2000, regulates the organizational and legal framework for the activities of museums in our country.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear subscribers,

Despite the fact that during the week from May 11 to May 16 there will be days off, the Genocide Memorial Complex can be visited from 10.00 to 17.00. In the complex, you will learn historical facts, get to know the museum reflecting Armenian vandalism, and enjoy the beauty of nature.
The people with their own history are invincible!

 

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On the initiative of the Association of Independent Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to Azerbaijan, Mr. Jahit Bagchi, visited Guba. During the visit, J. Bagci, together with a group of Turkish businessmen, visited the "Genocide Memorial Complex" in Guba.

First, flowers were laid at the monument to the victims of the genocide, then the ambassador and other guests were informed in detail about the inhuman atrocities committed by Armenian vandals in Azerbaijan in 1918. At the end of the meeting, the visitors were presented with propaganda and advertising books, booklets, flyers and other printed materials prepared by the Complex.

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MAY 9 DAY OF VICTORY OVER FASCISM

The state and citizens of Azerbaijan have seen the pain of World War II and have shown great determination. Thus, more than 600,000 Azerbaijani citizens took part in the war, more than 130 Azerbaijanis were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and more than 170,000 soldiers and officers were awarded various orders and medals.

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III-part RESOLUTION August 31, 1918, Ganja city

To implement the Government’s Decision of July 15, 1918, an Extraordinary Investigation Commission shall be established consisting of the chairman-juror Alakbar bey Khasmammadov and the following members: Ganja District Court members Ismayil bey Shahmaliyev and Andrey Fomich Novatski, Deputy Prosecutor of the same district court Nasraddin bey Safikurdski , Nikolai Mikhailovich Mikhailov, a member of the Ganja Resettlement Department, and V.V.Gudvillo, a former Chairman of the Conciliation Judges Congress, a real civil counselor, and Mammad Javad Akhundzadeh, a teacher. To allocate the daily salary: to the chairman of the commission – 60 rubles, to members of the commission on public service – 40 rubles a day, to the rest – 50 rubles. Travel expenses must be reimbursed at actual cost. The commission should be given the opportunity to invite secretaries, specialists and other persons in need.
Chairman of the Commission: A. Khasmammadov (signature) F. Khoyski instead of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Guba genocide 1918 ( May 1-9)

In Guba, as in other parts of the Baku province, the Bolshevik-Dashnak leadership of the Baku Soviet decided to send a second military force after Gelovani, this time a punitive force consisting only of Armenians, under the leadership of Hamazasp, to suppress the national movement. Hamazasp did not deny that his group was sent to Guba for punishment: “I am a hero of the Armenian people and its defender.” Before reaching the city of Guba, Armenian gangs began to burn and destroy civilian villages along the way, committing mass genocides. Merciless Armenians did not spare the old people, children and women and killed every muslim they met.
According to eyewitnesses, at the end of April the Khamazasp group approached Khachmaz, but local forces resisted. However, due to inequality of forces, after two days of fighting, the punitive detachment was able to leave for Guba. Hamazasp was at the head of this group. His assistant was Nikolai, and his guide was Harutyun Hayrapetov, a local Armenian nicknamed “The Mill.” Hamazasp’s group consisted of about 3,000 men, 4 cannons and 8 machine guns.
On May 1, the Armenian Dashnaks, who entered the city from three sides under the name of Bolsheviks, immediately began killing and looting. On the first day, 715 Muslims, mostly women and children, were killed in the lower part of the city, and the Boyuk Shosse and Bazar streets were destroyed and on the second day, 1,012 civilians were killed. A.Alibeyov, who came to Hamazasp as a representative of the city population, asked him to allow him to bury the dead, but his request was denied. Despite repeated appeals, Hamazasp did not allow the bodies of slain Muslims to be collected from the streets and buried. The aim was to intimidate and frighten the population. Violence, murder and robbery lasted for 9 days, and the property of the area population was looted. Examination of archival documents revealed that when Hamazasp arrived, an additional force was sent to Guba from Petrovsky. In general, the number of members of the Armenian Dashnak gang that committed genocide in Guba district was more than 5-6 thousand.
The members of the criminal gang committed atrocities against Muslims that are beyond human comprehension. Witness testimonies confirm that Armenian vandals enjoyed the inhumane “experiments” they inflicted on wounded and killed people. Mashadi Hamdulla Aliyev, a 40-year-old resident of Guba, said he had seen many bodies in the city, about two-thirds of which belonged to children and women. Many women had their breasts cut off and their corpses disfigured with daggers.
There are also archival materials that 300 people killed by Armenians were buried in 51 graves. As a result of Hamazasp’s atrocities, more than 16,000 civilians were killed in Guba area. The documents submitted to the Emergency Commission in connection with the damage caused to individual rural communities in the area provided a general overview of the damage to families, and in some cases did not provide information on burned houses and other buildings. T
The Dashnaks annihilated thousands of valuable books on Islam, oriental history and literature. Armenians set on fire the Abdurrahim Efendi’s madrasa in the center of Guba and burnt about 1,300 books. According to reports, the Digah mosque had books written in the Albanian and Arabic alphabets about 600-700 years ago. In addition to destroying the books, the Armenians also blew up a shrine stone about a kilometer from the village mosque. It was a huge stone with Albanian inscriptions on it.
In December 1918, Andrei Novatsky, a member of the Ganja District Court, arrived in Guba with his assistant and began an investigation. The investigation team, in connection with the genocide committed in the Guba district in April-May 1918, listened to dozens of witnesses for several months, inspected the scene of the incident and prepared a three-volume collection of documents consisted of 451 pages. Novatsky, the member of the EIC presented a report to the Chairman of the Commission on the destruction of the city of Guba, as well as in the villages of the Guba district, as well as violence against civilians.
The direct organizers of the Guba massacres were Shaumyan, Korganov, the executors were Hamazasp, Volunts and other criminals of Armenian descent. The atrocities committed in Guba by the gangs of the Baku Soviet, headed by S. Shaumyan, consisting mainly of Armenians and under the command of the Dashnak Hamazasp, it was not a civil war or the establishment of Soviet power, but a massacre of an entire nation.