Dilgam ismailov

publishing house, ”Achig soz” editorial of newspaper, 
Ismailiyah building”, burned the minarets of “Taza pir” 
mosque had punctured by shelling. As a result of the March 
genocide in Baku more than 12 thousands Azerbaijanis were 
killed. Bolshevik-dashnak groups also continued genociede in 
Shamakhi, Guba, Kurdamir, Salyan and Lankaran 
districts. On 3-16 April Lalayans’s and T.Amirov’s dashnak 
troops inflict reprisals Shamakhi people. With the support of 
local armenian and russian molocan peasants’dashnaks’ had 
killed more than 8000 azerbaijanians and were destroyed 72 
villages. Under led Hamazasp dashnaks’ groups had burned 
Quba district’s 162 villages and killed more than 16 thousand 
Muslims. Genocide has continued until mid of September. 
During genocide were killed 50000 azerbaijanians.
Under the leader of Shaumyan, the Bolshevik-Dashnak 
troops’s committed 1918 March genocide. This genocide had 
been organized to strike a heavy blow to the democratic forces 
and the ideas of the independence of Azerbaijan. This tragedy 
has demonstrated Baku Soviet‘s anti-Azerbaijani policy. Break 
Azerbaijan’s national democracy in the hope of for autonomy. 
In Azerbaijan impacted strong blow to the Soviet idea. Among 
Azerbaijan people strengthened national unity and the idea of 
independent statehood. On 26 March 1998 the president of 

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Azerbaijan issued a decree about azerbaijanians’ genocide. 
As a result of the March tragedy Bolsheviks who took the 
temporary advantage to strengthen the politically power began 
to make a number of actions. Except the bolsheviks and 
armenian political parties’ press agencies had closed all 
newspapers and magazines. The whole city economy was 
given to bolsheviks. On 20 April Baku City’s Duma headed