The Congress of Azerbaijanis in Sweden sent a petition to the Swedish parliament in connection with the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis, the State Committee for work with Diaspora reported on Friday.
The Armenian Dashnaks who seized the power under Stepan Shaumyan's leadership in March 1918 cruelly killed tens of thousands of civilian Azerbaijanis. According to a decree signed in 1998 by Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev, March 31 is marked as Azerbaijani Genocide Day.
According to the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences' History Institute, about 700,000 people were killed on the territory of Azerbaijan on March 24. About 75 Shamakhi, 122 Guba, 115 Zangazur villages were completely destroyed within a few days.
/Trend/
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