Azerbaijan to use new method to preserve mass grave in Guba

The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences plans to apply a new method to preserve mass graves of victims of genocide in Guba region.

"Izopol Group" company, dealing with assembly and construction work in Azerbaijan, proposed the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography a special chemical solution to save the burial," Qahraman Aghayev, employee of the Institute, told Trend. He said that the soil and human remains in a mass grave will be sprinkled by this chemical solution. It contributes to its preservation.

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.

He said that at present, Izopol Group's proposal was submitted to the relevant bodies for approval. He noted that about 7,000 remains, found at the burial site in Guba region, were transferred to the Association of Forensic Medicine and Pathology of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health.

"However, there are still remains in a mass grave. Moreover, the soil in the area is under the threat of erosion," he said.

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.


/Trend/