Protest rally in connection on March 31 - Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis held in Berlin
Baku, April 1 (AzerTAc). A protest action on March 31 - the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis has been held by the Azerbaijani House, the Coordination Center of Azerbaijanis in Germany and the German-Azerbaijani Youth Association, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin.
The action participants distributed leaflets reflecting the realities about the events of March 31 and briefed local residents and tourists on the genocide.
The participants also read out a statement condemning the crimes of Armenian nationalists against Azerbaijan.
Following the rally, a ceremony of remembrance was held in the Azerbaijani House by the support of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Germany.
The participants remembered the bloody pages of history of Azerbaijan and discussed strengthening propaganda in activity of the Diaspora.
Thousands of Azerbaijanis were killed just for their ethnic identity, houses were set on fire, and the people were burnt alive. Architectural monuments, schools, hospitals, mosques and other buildings were destroyed, most of Baku turned into ruin. Genocide of Azerbaijanis was carried out in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Karabakh, Zangazur, Nakhchivan, Lankaran and other places with medieval barbarity. In February and March 1918, Armenians killed about 50,000 people in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Mugan, Lankaran and other cities of Azerbaijan.
Their homes were robbed, tens of thousands of people were forced out of their homes. Only in Baku, about 30,000 people were mercilessly killed. Fifty-eight villages were burnt in Shamakhi, 150 villages in Karabakh, 115 in Zangazur, 211 in Iravan Province and 92 Azerbaijani villages in Kars were completely destroyed, people were punished ruthlessly regardless of their gender and age.
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