Recent heavy showers caused dangerous situation in Guba mass burial site.
The showers washed away over 1 meter area in the eastern part of the mass burial site, head of Guba genocide expedition Gahraman Agayev told. Gahraman Agayev said a large area was prevented from being washed away. Despite this, a large area of the burial site, which has not been excavated, faced danger of collapse. Agayev added that the bones in the mass burial site cracked. All the bones in the mass burial site must be treated by chemical agents.
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' Institute of History, 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.
It was proven that people, whose remains were revealed in a mass grave in Guba region, were killed by Armenians in 1918.
He said that at present, Izopol Group's proposal was submitted to the relevant bodies for approval.
He noted that about 7,000 remains, found at the burial site in Guba region, were transferred to the Association of Forensic Medicine and Pathology of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health. "However, there are still remains in a mass grave. Moreover, the soil in the area is under the threat of erosion," he said.
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