One of the heroes of the local resistance movement that actively fought against the Armenian Dashnaks during the genocides of 1918 was Hacıbaba Babayev, born in 1880 in the village of Hil in the Qusar district of the Quba region.

In his memoirs about the events of that year, he says: “When Amazasp attacked Quba, a man on a bay horse came to our village. He gathered the people and introduced himself as Alibey, requesting that everyone capable of holding a weapon prepare for battle. The Armenians coming to Quba to massacre the Muslims must be stopped. Afterward, he went to other villages.”

Following this call, Hacıbaba Babayev joined a group of over 200 armed men from Hil village, led by Məhəmməd Hacıyev and Gülməhəmməd Mürşüdov, to fight against the Armenian Dashnaks. Together with Kuzunlu Möübəli Efendi, Colonel Hatəm Ağa of Cağar, and Alibey Zizikski, as well as Abdurrahim Efendi’s forces from Dagestan, they crushed the Armenian Dashnak military forces in fierce battles near the village of Digah, in the area known as “Bloody Valley.”