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BY TESFA-ALEM TEKLE – Azerbaijanis on Wednesday marked the 103rd anniversary of the 1918 March genocide, committed by Armenian forces jointly with Bolsheviks against Azerbaijanis.
March 31 is commemorated in Azerbaijan as the Day of Genocide, in which tens of thousands of civilians lost their lives in Baku, as well as many other regions, including Shamakhi, Guba, Lenkaran, Salyan, Iravan, Zangezur, Garabagh and Nakhchivan in 1918. According to the Azerbaijani version of the events, in late March 1918, with the support of Bolshevik leaders of the Baku Council, the armed formations of the Armenian nationalist “Dashnaktsutyun” Party, led by Stepan Shaumyan, carried out mass killings and pogroms of Azerbaijanis.
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