An open lesson at the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Literature Museum

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Published on Monday, 02 April 2018 11:01

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Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Literature Museum named after Jalil Mammadguluzadeh held an open lesson together with Nakhchivan city secondary school №2 on "March 31 the genocide of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijani literature" on March 30, 2018.

Opening the lesson, director of the museum Alamzar Ibrahimova said that the March genocide committed between March 30 and April 3, 1918, in Baku and different regions of the Baku province, as well as Shamakhi, Guba, Khachmaz, Lankaran, Hajigabul, Salyan, Zangazur, Karabakh, Nakhchivan and other territories of Azerbaijan by Armenian armed forces of the Dashnaktsutun and Baku Soviet against the Azerbaijanis. According to official sources, as the result of genocide, about 12,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and tens of thousands were lost.

Samana Rustamova, chief scientific worker of the museum, gave a speech on "March 31 the genocide of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijani literature" and noted that March 31 was commemorated by the Azerbaijan People's Republic as a mourning day for two times - in 1919 and 1920. It was the first attempt in the history to give a political assessment to genocide against the people of Azerbaijan and to the aggressive process which continued for over a century. But the collapse of the Azerbaijan People's Republic did not allow finishing this process.

In the literature of Azerbaijan, Gurban Said's novel "Ali and Nino" widely depicts the occupation of Baku by Bolsheviks in 1918-1920. "Yayjy genocide" by Nakhchivani writer Faraj Farajov, poet Eyyub Abbasov's novel "Zangazur" are some of the works written about genocide. Even Lev Vaysenberg’s "Little sister" novel is one of the works about the March genocide.

Then pupils of Nakhchivan secondary school №2 performed poems dedicated to the Day of genocide of Azerbaijanis and got acquainted with the exhibition titled "March 31 is the day of genocide of Azerbaijanis", which was organized at the exposition of the museum.

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