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SHAMAKHI GENOCIDE
 (1918) 
BAKU 2011

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The book deals with the massacre committ ed by the armed Armenians 
in March-April of 1918 in Shamakhi. The prime objectives of Armenians, 
committ ing this crime with the assistance of the Baku Soviet, were to put 
Baku, rich in natural resources, under the control of the Soviet Russia by 
carrying out ethnic cleansing in Baku and in its suburbs.
Editorial staff 
Fuad Babayev
Tarana Babayeva
Shahin Jamalov
Vali Alibayov
Dayanat Musayev
Ramiz Sevdimaliyev
Language editor
Tural Ahmadov
Project manager
Elkhan Suleymanov, the president of the Associa-
tion for Civil Society Development in Azerbaij an, 
Deputy of Shamakhi
Author 
Maharram Zulfugarli, Doctor of philosophy in 
historical sciences
Scientifi c Editor
Karim Shukurov, Professor, Doctor of historical 
sciences

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Preface.......................................................................................
Introduction.............................................................................
The historical roots of Shamakhi genocide..........................
Crimes committ ed by Armenians in Shamakhi in 1918 ....
Conclusion................................................................................
Bibliography .............................................................................
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More than 90 years Armenian diaspora has been disseminating-
partial, most oft en wrong, and even distorted information to the 
world community. Recently, parliaments of some countries and 
communities have recognized or are currently recognizing the 1915 
events as “genocide”. Regretfully, Turkey remained silent until 15 
years ago and assumed that this issue would not be brought to 
agenda by Armenians as time passes. Conversely, Armenian dias-
pora was and still is united in the U.S. and in other countries to this 
end, and thousands of people took this mission as the maintenance 
of their life. By keeping claims on the fabricated Armenian genoci-
de in agenda, they set a goal to protect their nationalities in diff erent 
countries on the one hand, and pursue their demand on compensa-
tion from Turkey and even territorial claims as a means of pressu-
re, on the other. 
Dissemination of biased information in print and online media 
by Armenian diaspora in over 90 years has indeed yielded certa-
in results, thus partial and distorted claims have gradually been ac-
cepted as a mere truth in several countries. 
The prime reason for bringing the 1915 events to the att ention of 
the world community and to the agenda of parliaments of some co-
untries by Armenia and Armenian diaspora is that they make en-
deavor to keep the occupation of Azerbaij ani territories by Russian 
ammunition 19 years ago, more than a million of refugees and IDPs 
and eventually Nagorno-Karabakh problem out of att ention. This 
strategy is implemented meticulously and discreetly. 
Evidently, Armenia and Armenian diaspora make an att empt 
to distract views on the massacre carried out against Azerbaij ani 
Turks in March-April of 1918and on the massacre against 630 civili-
Preface

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ans, notably women and children, of Khodjaly in 1992. 
The world community should study realities from unbiased so-
urces. To this end, Turkey and Azerbaij an should att ach great im-
portance to this issue and should provide the international com-
munity with undistorted and unchanged sources by publishing the 
archival documents of diff erent countries in useful languages. 
If Armenia and the Armenian diaspora put their faith in the rea-
lities of information and sources they submitt ed to the international 
community so far, then why do they avoid facing documents, sour-
ces and archival documentsof Russia, France, Germany, U.K., U.S., 
Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaij an? Why do they reject Turkish pro-
posal of conducting research of the sources by the commission that 
includes Turkish, Armenian and international researchers? If Arme-
nia and the Armenian diaspora are not concerned about disclosing-
dissemination of partial information to the world community deli-
berately then why Turkish proposal is rejected? 
In most part of the globe, peoples living in neighborhoods fo-
ught each other for a long time and eventually tremendous amount 
of damages and disasters broke out. One of the clear examples is the 
fi ght between Germany and France for ages until the Second World 
War and enormous losses among civilians. However, Germany and 
France were able to establish friendly neighboring relations from 
1950 on, having learned much from sad pages of the history. The 
prerequisite is the willingness of both parties in eliciting truth and 
their persistence of sett ing up friendly relations. 
To set up friendly relations with Azerbaij an and Turkey and es-
tablish peace in the Caucasus, Armenia must withdraw from the 
occupied territories of Azerbaij an by abiding by resolutions un-
conditionally, IDPs must be returned to their homes, and Armenia 
have to give a positive feedback on peaceful resolution of Nagorno-
Karabakh problem. Maintenance of peace and friendly relations 

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