However, when Soviet leaders reached out to ARF for assistance against the Azerbaijani nationalists, the conflict degenerated into a massacre with the Armenians killing the Muslims irrespective of their political affiliations or social and economic position.
He’s resolute, has rich experience in struggle with counter-revolution in Middle Asia, knows the particulars of war art, he’s railway engineer and old party worker. [68] 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. [62] He also claimed that the Armenians gave shelter to some 20,000 Muslims during the struggle. This new body endeavored to nationalize Baku's oil fields, drawing the ire of the British,[30] and formed the "Red Army of Baku", an undisciplined and poorly managed force composed largely of ethnic Armenian recruits. In spite of many years passed, that bloody genocide was not forgotten. هذه الأخيرة قد حررت نفسها من كل توجيه وجاءهم من خارج الجمهورية الارمينيه وصف, https://31mart.wordpress.com Certainly, genocide represents a policy, a campaign carried out against a group of people over a period of time and consisting of otherwise seemingly isolated massacres and bloodshed. Thanks to the firm and resolute action of the Bolsheviks, however, the rebellion was extinguished."[58]. [24] The Allies had also provided Armenians with 6,500,000 rubles ($3,250,000 of 1918 value) in financial assistance.

[22] It is noteworthy that during the March Days of 1918, one of the ARF founders, Stepan Zorian, was present in Baku. Earlier, the Azerbaijani youth association operating in Germany appealed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over March 31, the Day of Genocide. Sistemə daxil olmaq üçün məlumatlarınızı daxil edin və ya ikonlardan birinə tıklayın: WordPress.com hesabınızdan istifadə edərək şərh edirsinz. Yeni yazılar haqqında mənə e-poçt vasitəsi ilə bildiriş göndər. “It’s shame on russian marxist to hold standpoint of armenian hen-coop… Because of “armenian” blindness you become apprentice of Purishkevichs and their nationalism” (Lenin V.I. While the Temporary Executive Committee of the Muslim National Councils and the Musavat ceased their activities in the territory of the Baku Governorate, the left-wing Azerbaijani political groups, such as the SRs and the Hümmet, benefited from the developments and became effective leaders of the Azerbaijani community in Baku. On 1 August 1918, the Baku Commune was replaced by the Centrocaspian Dictatorship, which desperately invited a 1000-strong British expeditionary force led by General Lionel Dunsterville to the city. At that time “Musavat” failed to dispose of any units.

http://myshusha.wordpress.com Every Azerbaijani whom the Dashnak bands could catch was killed. Here in Baku, with its extremely motley population there was required delicate and cautious approach to many complicated problems and maximalism was absolutely irrelevant here. Therefore at the action’s beginning there thundered gun salvoes from Caspian fleet’s ship toward azerbaijani dwellings. Статьи. Shahumyan agreed to this proposal, but on the afternoon of 31 March, when Muslim representatives appeared before the Baku Soviet leadership to take the arms, shots were already being heard in the city and the Soviet commissar Prokofy Dzhaparidze refused to provide the arms. However, ignoring the decisions adopted by the respected international organizations, the Armenian side creates obstacles to the peace in the region, always demonstrating unconstructive position. March events had serious public repurcussions. It should be kept in mind that Shaumyan – “internationalist” regarded Azerbaijan nation highly malevolently attaching to it such labels as “Tatar (azerbaijani) mob”, “tatar ignorant masses”, “robber gangs”, “tatar ruffians” etc. [1] In Balakhany and Ramany districts of Baku, the majority of Muslim workers stayed at their places and avoided the battles, while the peasants were not moved to join the anti-Soviet rebels. E-poçt təsdiqləməsi müvəffəqiyyətsiz oldu, lütfən təkrar yoxlayın. Eventually these newcomers were disarmed by a stronger Bolshevik force, but when more units of the Savage Division arrived on 1 April, in MacDonell's words, "the Baku cauldron boiled over". The contest was won by the Soviets. Armenian troops murdered more than 30 000 innocent Azerbaijanis in a series of bloody massacres on March 31, subsequently on April 1-2, 1918, in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Kurdamir, Salyan, Karabakh, Zangezur, Nakhchivan,  Irevan, Shirvan, Lankaran and other provinces of Azerbaijan. Unfortunately these heinous crimes commited in Baku and provinces in March, 1918 received in due course proper and objective appraisal neither by world society nor republic’s authorities. On April 29 of 1918 three thousands survivals of Azerbaijanis, commonly consisted of women, children and the old people were surrounded near Gumru and were killed. 1978.

In reference to various attempts to downplay or even conceal the slaughter, Kazemzadeh notes, “No matter how obvious historical facts may be, there are always means of twisting them to suit a particular theory. In Azerbaijan, the March 31 is known as the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis, referring to the tragic events that started on March 30, 1918, and continued until April 1. Советская власть в Баку в 1918 году (Бакинская Коммуна). The Sejm opposed Bolshevism and sought separation of the South Caucasus from Bolshevik Russia. [26], The Azerbaijanis grew increasingly suspicious that Shahumyan, who was an ethnic Armenian, was conspiring with the Dashnaks against them. In his recent book, researcher R.Mustafayev writes that on August 31, 1918, for the first and last time the Armenian government itself has declared that only in one year Armenians killed 400 thousand Azerbaijanis, 120 thousand Georgians, 15 thousand Turks and others – all just in South Caucasus.