Participants of the 12th Baku International Conference of Ombudsmen have visited Guba Genocide Memorial Complex,SIA reports.
The participants were told that Guba mass burial site caused by the genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis was discovered on April 1, 2007. Employees of Archeology and Ethnography Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences found out the bones of more than 400 people. More than 50 of the remains belonged to children, 100 to women, the rest to old men. Along with Azerbaijanis, Lezgins, Jews, Tats and representatives of other ethnic groups killed by Armenians were buried there.
Tens of thousands of Muslims as well as local Jews were killed by joint Armenian and Bolshevik forces in Baku and the regions, including Guba, Shamakhi, Goychay, Karabakh and Lankaran regions between March and September 1918. Nearly 167 villages were destroyed in Guba region alone.
The ombudsmen were informed that on December 30, 2009, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the establishment of the Guba memorial complex to commemorate victims of the genocide in Guba region.
The complex also includes a museum containing pictures and archive documents about life in five regions of the then Baku province - Shamakhi, Guba, Javad and Goychay - between March and July 1918.