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Quba genocide by armenians 1918 Azerbaijan - ermeniler toreden Quba soyqirimi 1918 Azerbaycan

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QUBA MASS GRAVE SITE. In the spring of 2007 a mass grave containing at least 200 skeletons was found on the edge of Quba City during construction at the soccer stadium site. Archealogists from Baku excavated the site and constructed a temporary shelter to protect the skeletons and excavations. Plans are being to developed to build a museum complex orund the mass grave to memorialize the loss. Official English language sign posted infront of mass-grave(March 2009). 1.ON 1 April, 2007 a mass grave was opened in Guba while doing ground works. 2.As a result of the primary research carried out by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan from 8 to 11 April 2007 it has been revealed that the site is a burial place of the local innocent civilians massacred by the Armenians in 1918. 3.To provide a more comlete explanation to the problem the Sciense Board of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan proposed thorough arcaeological investigations in the site. 4.A staff of seven researchers of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan have been investigating the place. The results of the research carried out in 2007. The first, main stage involved the archaeological investigation of the mass grave. The second stage was the investigation of the burial place from a historical point of view and on the basis of archive materials. The third stage included talking to the local residents,mainly the old people. The total area of the site is 500 square meters. were found. As a result of the archaeological excavations two wells and two channels filled withcorpses were found. All the victims bear signs of mutilation. Exhumations claimed that the victims were murdered cruelly and inhumanely-with dull instruments.The number of murdered were discovered by counting the skulls. It has been found out that all the remains of the mass grave belong to the Azerbaijanis and members of other ethnic minorities living compactly in Guba. Most of the skeletal human remains found in the mass grave are of children and women. Besides the wells, 200 skulls have been uncovered in the mass grave so far. -50 of them are of children of different ages -54 are of women and the rest belong to old people From a historical point of view and on the basis of archive materials is has been identified that in 1918,at the end of April a special torture regimentinstructed by Stephan Shaumyan , the commissar of the then Soviet of People Commissars and Korganov , a military commissar was sent to Guba Region. Under the command of the Armenian general Hmazasp armenians killed 50 thousand civilians of Northern Azerbaijan. As a result of the ordeal only in Guba region 1800 children, about 2000 old men and women were murdered. Also they burned half of Guba city. In the Guba district more than 12.000 were killed by armenian nationalist Dashnak party, the number of villages ruined was 122. Small part of them was buried in the place where we have been carrying out our research. The research is still going on.