Azerbaijan, Baku, March 30 /Trend, M.Aliyev/
In early April work will begin on burial of the remains of victims of genocide in a mass burial in Azerbaijan's Guba district, a fellow of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, head of the Guba expedition on genocide Gahraman Agayev told Trend.
He said as a result of work undertaken by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, landslides were completely prevented in this area.
About 7,000 bones, found in Guba burial, were sent for forensic examination to the Health Ministry. "But still there are unexamined bones in the grave," said Agayev.
The Armenian Dashnaks who seized the power under Stepan Shaumyan's leadership in March 1918 cruelly killed tens of thousands of civilian Azerbaijanis.
According to a decree signed in 1998 by Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev, March 31 is marked as Azerbaijani Genocide Day.
According to the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences' Institute of History, about 700,000 people were killed on the territory of Azerbaijan on March 24. About 75 Shamakhi, 122 Guba, 115 Zangazur villages were completely destroyed within a few days.
It was proven that people, whose remains were revealed in a mass grave in Guba region, were killed by Armenians in 1918.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the establishment of the Guba memorial complex to the victims of genocide in Guba region December 30 last year. The Heydar Aliyev Foundation prepared a project of the memorial complex to the victims of genocide.