Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis
31 March - Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis
World Azerbaijanis commemorate the 104th anniversary of the tragic events that went down in history as the ‘March massacre in Baku’. March 31, 1918, armed forces of the Armenian revolutionary Federation aided by Russian Bolsheviks massacred tens of thousands of Azerbaijani Muslims and Jews in Baku, Quba, Shamakhi, Lenkaran and other cities and regions in Azerbaijan.
In 1920, New York Times editorial mentioned that at least 12,000. Azerbaijanis were massacred on March 31, 1918.
During construction, Mass graves containing skeletons were found in Quba and other cities in Azerbaijan. Skeletons on top of skeletons were in ditches. According to the archaeologist, all the bodies found in the ditches show that the people were killed with blunt instruments and with inhuman cruelty. The Quba genocide memorial complex has been erected in memory of the tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis who were victims of massacres committed by Bolshevik- Armenian armed forces in Azerbaijan in 1918.
In America, on 27 March 2012, the New York State Senate adopted the first-ever legislative resolution J3784-2011 proclaiming 31 March 2012 as the Azerbaijani Remembrance Day and describing March Days as the genocide "committed by the members of Armenian Dashnak party in concert with Bolsheviks against Azerbaijanis". The resolution was introduced by the State Senator James Alesi at the initiative of the members of Azerbaijan Society of America and Azerbaijani-American Council.
On March 31, 2015, the New Jersey State Assembly recognized and remembered the victims of this devastation. A Resolution adopted by the New Jersey State Assembly and signed by Sheila Oliver who is now New Jersey's Lieutenant Governor, second highest-ranking official in the State of New Jersey. NJ State Assemblyman Thomas Giblin visited us at our residence and gave us the resolution himself.
We join our homeland Azerbaijan remembering this crime against humanity!
Azerbaijan Society of America
