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Ummulbanu Mirza kyzy Asadullaeva, a French writer of Azerbaijani descent, who is in one of the section of the museum, is one of the witnesses of the March events of 1918. She writes in her “Days in Caucasus” autobiographical novel :
A pro-socialist Armenian organization created a military dictatorship in the country under the slogan “save the country from the communist coup.” But there was talk among the people that the Bolsheviks were at the head of this organization. One night at 2 o’clock my nanny Anna woke me up. The whole city was without electricity.Sounds of firing could be heard from unknown directions in this terrific dark, bullets were whistling everywhere. The sound of machine-gun fire could be heard in the distance. Horrified, we were expecting arrival of the Dashnaks ( this was the name of an Armenian party) at our home, and thinking how they would destroy our home and kill us… Armenian neighbours living opposite side offered us a shelter in their home…We had to cross the street. But endlessly raining bullets from all around made even this distance a deadly threat… However,God took compasion upon us… On the following daw we saw trucks before our home. Men with full cartridge-belts were loading the trucks with items thrown out of our windows. Dressed on dirty military clothes, these men’s appearance was terrifying. However, looking at this disgusting scene of robbery, we felt happy inside, as they would have thrown us out the same windows without any hesitation, had we stayed in our home…
After power passed to the Bolsheviks in 1920, the family was forced to leave Azerbaijan. The place of emigration was France. Banin was known in France not only for her novels, but also as a fine translator of Russian, English and German fiction.

We present to you the testimony of 18-year-old Suraya Mashadi Dadash gizi, a resident of the village of Khojaly in Javad area, one part of the museum’s expositions, in the fall of 1918 as a witness in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Extraordinary Investigation Commission under the Government of Azerbaijan During the attack of the Armenian Bolsheviks on our village, I with my youngest baby daughter, two younger brothers – 9-year-old Abbasali and 6-year-old Abu Samad, my fellow villagers Annana Allahverdi, Tohva Meshadi Mikail, Qoncha Ibadullah and her baby, Agakishi Ibadullah ran to the mountains and hid behind the hills. Eight Armenian cavalrymen found us and opened fire. We all fell to the ground. The Armenians were gone. Despite the fact that I was injured in my left shoulder, right arm and leg, I survived. My brothers and child were also alive. The rest were dead. I suffered a lot. Soon, the Armenians returned and killed four Muslims whom they brought with them. I asked the Armenians to shoot me. They did not agree and said they were leaving me alive so that my Muslim brothers would see me. When they saw that my child and brothers were alive, they cut them on my chest and killed. The baby of my fellow villager, Qoncha, also survived, but the Armenians killed him too. Muslims from the village of Beshtaly found me and took to their village. They also buried the bodies of killed.

This genocide is one of the most horrific events in world history committed by members of the Red Khmer movement during the Pol Pot regime in 1975-1979. The Red Khmers, who considered Mao Zedong to be their ideal, killed 3 million educated and skilled citizens in order to carry out their plan to build a “Cambodian-style socialism.” The Red Khmers, which has turned the country into a large concentration camp, has committed unimaginable atrocities.
According to Paul Pot’s plan to “build socialism”, all cities were destroyed, industrial facilities and other infrastructure were destroyed. For him nothing, even human life has no value. In order to save the bullets, people were killed with machetes, pitchforks or other blunt instruments and subjected to all kinds of torture. Although the Red Khmer terror was essentially similar to the terrorist attacks in other communist countries, it was more horrific and more ruthless in form. Pol Pot and his communist gangs established a dictatorship in the country, and the kingdom was abolished in 1976 under a new constitution, and in April, N. Xianuk was dismissed by the House of Representatives.
This bloody genocide, which lasted for four years, destroyed a quarter of the Cambodian population. This bloody event ended with the entry of Vietnam into the country and the defeat of the Red Khmer Army. There are almost no elderly people in the country, and the survivors are witnesses of the genocide. The Red Khmer torture site was turned into a museum after the genocide, and the complex is visited by about 500 people a day.

It should be noted that in 1915 in Idira, Musa, Bitlis, Van and other provinces of Turkey, Armenian Dashnaki made unimaginable cruelty genocide against thousands of peaceful Muslim residents. (We thank our dear historian Firdovsia Akhmadova for presenting the historical photograph to the Complex.)

Elchin Garayev, researcher of the Irevan khanate, author of many articles in this field, doctor of philosophical sciences in history, spoke about the Irevan khanate, the heroic struggle of the Irevan khanate against foreign invaders, resettlement and genocide in the early 19th century. At our request, he presented a scientific report to the audience of the Genocide Memorial Complex. We thank the historian and wish him success in his work. We present you a link to a lecture and an article written by Elchin Garaev. The photographs used belong to the collection of Amir Ali Sardari Irawani, the only successor of the Irewan khanate. thanks http://www.science.gov.az/forms/doktora-filosofii-instituta-istorii/1262?fbclid=IwAR2tYN7_kCga6Km_4mb2QX6-9WlKhDj2-JMOzzwRawjkRg4I7pwjRyBS5kE