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| The '''Quba mass grave''' is a ] site from 1918 in the town of ] in northeastern ]. | |||
| ==Investigation== | |||
| '''Guba mass grave''' is an alleged ] of victims of ]s of ], ], ] civilians by ] and ] during the ] of 1918 in ], ]. | |||
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| Once the burial site was uncovered, the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the ] dispatched a forensic expedition to the location. The expedition released its first forensics report on April 13, 2007, stating that the preponderance of commingled skeletal remains suggests that the people were first executed and then thrown into wells, 2.5 to 5 meters deep.<ref name="echo">{{cite news | url=http://echo.az/index.php?aid=135 | title=Б. Сафаров. Установить всех жертв поименно не удастся | publisher=Эхо | access-date=June 9, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815104959/http://echo.az/index.php?aid=135 | archive-date=August 15, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Gahraman Agayev, the leader of the forensic expedition, followed up on this by reporting the discovery of two main wells and two canals with human bones. | |||
| The research has discovered the remains of more than 400 people belonging to different age groups in the grave. Of these, 50 belong to children, more than 100 to women and others mainly to elderly men. The Azerbaijani government stated that the burial was from a massacre committed against the local population by Armenian gangs in 1918.<ref>{{Citation | title=Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the Guba genocide memorial |website=Official web-site of President of Azerbaijan Republic | url=https://president.az/en/articles/view/9346 | access-date=1 January 2023}}</ref> | |||
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| In response to the mass grave discovery, Levon Yepiskoposyan, supervisor of Human Genetics at the Institute of Molecular Biology in the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and president of the Armenian Anthropological Society, and Hayk Kotanjian, President of the Association of Political Science at the Ministry Doctor of Political Sciences, sent letters urging the President of the ], Mahmud Kerimov, to form a joint committee to examine the remains found. As of 2013, those letters have not received a response from Azerbaijani officials.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Армянские политологи против политики ксенофобии Ильхама Алиева: кто же захоронен в Губе?|url=http://regnum.ru/news/polit/1589098.html|access-date=1 June 2013|date=2 November 2012|agency=]|language=ru}}</ref> | |||
| ], the director of the ], has stated that no foreign experts have examined the human remains.<ref>{{cite news|last=Demoyan|first=Hayk|script-title=ru:Когда Губа не дура, или особенности национального геноцидостроения а Азербайджане|url=http://www.erbo.su/history/azerbaidjan/83_kogda_guba_ne_dura.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507030643/http://erbo.su/history/azerbaidjan/83_kogda_guba_ne_dura.html|archive-date=7 May 2016|access-date=1 June 2013|newspaper=Golos Armenii|date=14 September 2010|agency=Hayk Demoyan|language=ru}}</ref> | |||
| A mass grave was discovered during the construction of a stadium in Guba on April 6, 2007.<ref name="vision">{{cite news | url=http://www.visions.az/topical,138/ | title = Mass Grave Found in Northern Azerbaijan | publisher = Visions | date = Spring 2007 | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> Upon the discovery, an expedition group was formed and an archeological excavation conducted. Bones of approximately 400-600<ref>{{cite news| url=http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=117897 | title= TRT crew visits genocide mass grave in Guba | publisher= APA | date= 2010-03-13 | accessdate= July 11, 2010}}</ref> people, including those of over 50 children and 100 women, were uncovered. These civilians were killed on the orders of ] leader, ethnic Armenian ].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.news.az/articles/16170 | title= Belgian deputy shocked by mass grave in Azerbaijan | publisher= Azerbaijan News | date= May 25, 2010 | accessdate= July 11, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.news.az/articles/11403 | title = Turkish reporters visit mass grave in Azerbaijan | date = March 15, 2010 | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> The mass slaughter in Guba city and Guba ] of ] was continuation of ] in the spring of 1918, as a result of strengthening of power of Bolsheviks and Dashnaks in Baku , {{Nonspecific|date=July 2011}}. According to the reports of ] Special Investigations Commission from July 1918, investigating war crimes against civilian population in the country, Armenian armed detachments under the command of Hamazasp Srvantstyan, sent to Guba in May 1918 by the chairman of Baku Soviet of Commissars, ], committed attrocities in the city of Guba and Muslim villages of Guba uyezd.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.anl.az/el/q/qarabag_6/q-18.htm | title = Свидетельство о Губинской трагедии | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> According to the research, the general numbers of people killed by Armenian detachments in Guba city and 122 villages of Guba district the spring of 1918 are 3,000 and 16,000, respectively. Out of all killed, about 3,000 were of Jewish nationality. The facts had been presented by the leader of Azerbaijani ] Semyon Ikhilov in 1980s.<ref name="vision"/> | |||
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| Once the burial site was uncovered, a forensic expedition of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of ] was formed and sent to the location. On April 13, 2007, the first forensics report was released. According to the report, the fact that there are no intact sceletons testify that massacred civilians were first executed, dismembered and then thrown into the wells, 2.5 to 5 meters deep. The deepest wells had hundreds of human remains.<ref name="echo">{{cite news | url=http://echo.az/index.php?aid=135 |title = Б. Сафаров. Установить всех жертв поименно не удастся | publisher= Эхо | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> The first finds reported 137 sceletons.<ref name="jew">{{cite news |url=http://www.vosizneias.com/12028/2007/10/02/guba-azerbaijan-skull-fragments-of-137 | title = Guba, Azerbaijan - Skull Fragments of 137 People Found in Mass Grave | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> | |||
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| The archeological excavation works covering more than 500 sq miles<ref name="jew"/> were completed on September 5, 2008. Gahraman Agayev, the leader of the forensic expedition, reported that 2 main wells and 2 canals with human bones were uncovered. The finds indicate that 24 skulls were of children, 28 - of women of various ages. Besides ethnic Azerbaijanis killed were Jews and Lezgis.<ref name="echo"/> The names of 81 massacred Jewish civilians were found and confirmed.<ref name="vision"/> | |||
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| In 2008 ], President of the ], visited this mass cemetery commemorating the massacre of the peaceful population and said that he was horrified.<ref></ref> Members of Diplomatic Academy of Germany<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.day.az/society/158458.html | title=Сотрудники и студенты Дипломатической академии Германии посетили массовое захоронение в Губе | publisher = Day.az | date= May 23, 2009 | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref>, Kuwaiti government delegation<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.oananews.org/view.php?id=109320&ch=AST | title= KUWAITI DELEGATION VISITS GUBA MASS GRAVE | publisher = Oananews | date = April 15, 2010 | accessdate= June 9, 2011}}</ref> as well as students from Oman, Yemen, Pakistan, Belarus, India, Israel, Korea and Turkey<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.today.az/news/society/83471.html | title= Foreign student in Azerbaijan commemorate Guba mass grave's victims | publisher = today.az | date = March 31, 2011 | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}</ref> | |||
| Construction of a museum at the site of the mass grave is being planned. An initial amount of ] 1 million will be allocated for the construction.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://en.trend.az/news/official/parliament/1578784.html | title= Genocide Museum to be built in Guba |publisher= Trend News | date= November 12, 2009 |accessdate= June 9, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.news.az/articles/2320 | title= Museum to be constructed in place of Guba mass grave | publisher= news.az | date= November 12, 2009 |accessdate= June 9, 2011}}</ref> | |||
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| File:Armenian terror in Guba district of Azerbaijan in 1918 - 1.JPG | |||
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| File:Qubada soyqırım abidəsi 2.JPG | |||
| File:Qubada soyqırım abidəsi 1.JPG | |||
| File:Qubada Soyqırım abidəsi.JPG | |||
| File:Genocide of Azerbaijanis monument in Quba city of Azerbaijan .JPG | |||
| File:Azərbaycanlıların soyqırımını həyata keçirən ermənilər əlehinə mitinq.JPG | |||
| File:Protesto of Genocide of Azerbaijanis.JPG | |||
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| == Controversy == | |||
| After discovery of the mass grave no tests were run on the skeleton's to determine what group of people they belonged to. Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov ordered the director of the Institute of History, MP Yagub Mahmudov to attract foreign anthropologists to draw up an official document "about the massacre of Azerbaijanis at the beginning of last century, by the Armenians". However, foreign experts have not appeared, and the remains have not been subjected to peer evaluation to determine what ethnic group they belonged to. Without running any tests the leader of the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Qahraman Aghayev came to the conclusion the Armenian's were responsible and claims studies have shown that "the massacre took place from 3 to 10 May". Aghayev also claims ] wrote a letter telling about the massacre but no letter has been publicized. Contrary to the Azerbaijani claims there is a telegram in the Armenian archives written in late April 1918 by commissioner of the city and region of Guba Gelovani to the Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee Korganova which reads: "Today, 24 April, I delivered 115 of the Armenians who were imprisoned in Guba prison. They all lost their property. I made arrangements to return their property. They requested financial assistance from the Armenian National Council. As soon as possible send to my address. ... the critical financial state than the City Lip other places, too, is captured by Armenians. take steps to secure their release. " This telegram was published in "Arev" April 27, 1918. Other archival material shows the brutal murder of wealthy Armenian families Guba city, and among those killed were children (during the excavation of Azerbaijani sources have been found four children's skeleton).<ref>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.voskanapat.info/news/kogda_guba_ne_dura_ili_osobennosti_nacionalnogo_genocidostroenija_v_azerbajdzhane/2010-09-14-757</ref> | |||
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The Quba mass grave is a mass grave site from 1918 in the town of Quba in northeastern Azerbaijan.
Investigation
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Once the burial site was uncovered, the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences dispatched a forensic expedition to the location. The expedition released its first forensics report on April 13, 2007, stating that the preponderance of commingled skeletal remains suggests that the people were first executed and then thrown into wells, 2.5 to 5 meters deep. Gahraman Agayev, the leader of the forensic expedition, followed up on this by reporting the discovery of two main wells and two canals with human bones. The research has discovered the remains of more than 400 people belonging to different age groups in the grave. Of these, 50 belong to children, more than 100 to women and others mainly to elderly men. The Azerbaijani government stated that the burial was from a massacre committed against the local population by Armenian gangs in 1918.
Reactions
In response to the mass grave discovery, Levon Yepiskoposyan, supervisor of Human Genetics at the Institute of Molecular Biology in the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and president of the Armenian Anthropological Society, and Hayk Kotanjian, President of the Association of Political Science at the Ministry Doctor of Political Sciences, sent letters urging the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Mahmud Kerimov, to form a joint committee to examine the remains found. As of 2013, those letters have not received a response from Azerbaijani officials.
Hayk Demoyan, the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, has stated that no foreign experts have examined the human remains.
References
- "Б. Сафаров. Установить всех жертв поименно не удастся". Эхо. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- "Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the Guba genocide memorial", Official web-site of President of Azerbaijan Republic, retrieved 1 January 2023
- Армянские политологи против политики ксенофобии Ильхама Алиева: кто же захоронен в Губе? (in Russian). Regnum. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- Demoyan, Hayk (14 September 2010). Когда Губа не дура, или особенности национального геноцидостроения а Азербайджане. Golos Armenii (in Russian). Hayk Demoyan. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
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