Azerbaijan, Baku, April 1 / Trend M. Aliyev /
The United States and Canada conducted the ceremony of remembrance, dedicated to March 31 - the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis, the State Committee on Diaspora said.
The information was given about the brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis committed by armed groups of Dashnaks in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Khachmaz, Zangezur, Irevan and Nakhchivan in late March - early April 1918. These actions of the Armenian nationalists are a part of the plan of ethnic cleansing. They are sharply condemned.
The Armenian Dashnaks, who seized power under Stepan Shaumyan's leadership in March 1918, cruelly killed tens of thousands of civilian Azerbaijanis in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Khachmaz, Lankaran, Hajigabul, Salyan, Zangezur, Karabakh, Nakhchivan and other areas.
According to official sources, as a result of the genocide about 12,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, while tens of thousands went missing.