83rd Anniverary Of Azeri Genocide In Urmia

BAKU / 17.03.01 / TURAN

Today it is the 83rd anniversary of Azeri Turks genocide in Urmia (a province in South Iran). The international committee for rights of Azeris distributed in this connection a statement. This document reads that "US consul Shed, Russian consul Nikitin and religious missionaries from France, England and other countries witnessed how Armenian brigands murdered almost 10 thousand Azeri Turks within a period of one day". Authors of the statement have reminded that this was described in a book entitled Urmia - Territory of Prophet Zardusht by Ali Deghani, who witnessed massacre of Azeris and later headed the department to establish the South Azerbaijan. The fact of genocide is also reflected in Muhammed Tamaddun's book of History of Urmia.

Urmia events demonstrate that the Azeri genocide was a goal-seeking action. Gross murders of Azeris by Armenian nationalists under support of bolsheviks under plea of counter-revolution prevention took place in the North Azerbaijan as well. Dozens of thousand of people were killed in Baku, Shemaha, Guba and other regions throughout Azerbaijan.

The essence of Armenian chauvinism, aimed at establishment of the Great Armenia from one sea to another, did not change until late XX century. Armenians under the slogan of "miatzum" conducted ethnic cleansings of Azeris on the territory of Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh area of Azerbaijan and adjacent regions in late 1980s and early 1990s. This policy reached its culmination during February 1992 Hojali genocide.

This chronology demands that the present generation makes the corresponding conclusions from lessons of the history in memory of guiltless civilians and for the sake of peaceful life of the generations to come, reads statement made by the international committee for rights of Azeris.