Abstract :
This article deals with the massacres commited by armenians in Baku in 1918. On July 15, 1918, the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan Republic adopted a decree on the establishment of Extraordinary Investigation Commission (EIC), “to investigate the assaults made on Muslims and their property within the entire Caucasus since the beginning of the European warâ€. The materials of Extraordinary Investigation Commission are the unique source for investigating the genocide against Turkish-Muslim population in Azerbaijan from March till September in 1918. These documents are proved arguments show that the genocide against Azerbaijanis is one of the horrible tragedies had been rarely met in the history of humanity. We must give due to the first young Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in the most complicated and hardest conditions of its existence and activities as quickly and discreetly reacted to these events and had taken concrete steps.
Keyword :
genocide, armenians, archive documents, Extraordinary Investigation Commission, Baku, Azerbaijan