107 years have passed since the genocide committed by Armenians against the Azerbaijani people

March 31 marks 107 years since the genocide - the first large-scale ethnic cleansing committed by Armenians against the Azerbaijani people.

During the terror, carried out with the blessing and support of the Bolsheviks, tens of thousands of our peaceful compatriots were killed.

On March 31, 1918, a mass massacre of Azerbaijanis began in Baku. According to official sources, as a result of the genocide, which continued until April 3, tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis were killed on ethnic and religious grounds in the city of Baku and various settlements of the same-named province, as well as in the territories of Karabakh, Nakhchivan, Shamakhi, Guba, Khachmaz, Lankaran, Salyan, Zangezur and other regions with the participation of the Baku Soviet troops and armed detachments of Armenian Dashnaks.

Settlements, historical monuments, mosques, and cemeteries were also destroyed. The massacre against peaceful Azerbaijanis involved 6,000 soldiers of the Baku Soviet, as well as a 4,000-strong armed detachment of the "Dashnaktsutyun" party.

A German named Kulner, who witnessed these horrifying days, wrote in 1925 about the Baku events: "Armenians broke into Muslim (Azerbaijani) quarters and killed everyone, slashing with sabers, stabbing with bayonets. The corpses of 87 Azerbaijanis, which were retrieved from a ravine several days after the massacre, had their ears and noses cut off, stomachs ripped open, and genitals mutilated. Armenians spared neither children nor the elderly."

After the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), special attention was paid to investigating the March 1918 events. For this purpose, on July 15, the ADR government created an Extraordinary Investigation Commission.

According to its materials, Armenian bandits killed up to 8,000 civilians in Shamakhi, 28 villages in Javanshir district and 17 in Jabrayil district were completely destroyed, and the population was massacred. Near Gyumri, an Azerbaijani caravan of 3,000 people, consisting mainly of women, children, and the elderly, was ambushed - all were killed to the last person.

Armenian armed gangs burned several villages in Nakhchivan district, destroyed 115 Azerbaijani villages in Zangezur district, killing 3,257 men, 2,276 women, and