OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV VISITS GENOCIDE GRAVE IN GUBA
Guba, September 18 (AZERTAC). President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today visited the massive genocide grave here.
The Head of State was informed that the grave is an evidence of the genocide committed by Armenians against local civilians in 1918. The total area of the grave is 514 sq. meters. The excavations discovered over 400 bodies brutally killed by Armenians. Of them, over 50 are children, over 100 women while the rest are men.
The employees of the Archeology and Ethnography Institute did a preliminary examination here from April 8 to 11, 2007. The archival documents proved that Armenians ruined 122 villages and committed atrocities against civilians in April-May 1918, killing 36,782 people.
The President was briefed about the monument to be mounted here.
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