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    DOCUMENT CONFIRMING THAT STEPAN SHAUMYAN WAS NOT SHOT IN AGJAGUM IN 1918 FOUND

    Today.Az
    http://www.today.az/news/politics/ 50499.html
    Feb 4 2009
    Azerbaijan

    The document confirming that head of Baku Commissars Stepan Shaumyan
    was a prisoner of war in March, 1919, it was stated at the Scientific
    Council of the History Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of
    Sciences, APA reports.

    Director of History Institute Yagub Mahmudov gave information about
    the excavations carried out in Sahil Park on January 24-26. According
    to him, the document found in the National Archive contains the
    information sent by head of Georgian government to the representative
    of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on March 8, 1919.

    "26 Baku commissars were shot on September 20, 1918. The document
    writes that Stepan Shaumyan was a prisoner of war," he said.

    The full text of the document found in the archive is as follows:
    "Mr. representative of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic! Our
    representative says the following to the head of government with letter
    #894 on February 26: Tbilisi radio station recorded a telegram sent
    from Astrakhan to Sokolov. The telegram is connected with the exchange
    of POWs. The telegram writes that the issue on exchanging the captured
    member of the allies mission with Stepan Shaumyan and other POWs,"
    he said. The telegram ends with the words: "See in Baku soon."

    Yagub Mahmudov said the document was very important. The director of
    the institute said he had given instructions to the employees of the
    institute to identify Sokolov.

    He said it was noted in the Baku Soviet (Council) archive document
    that Armenian government allocated 150 thousand rubles in 1934 for
    construction of "26" monument in Krasnovodsk. "These facts prove that
    Armenia always tried to entangle the "26" history. Our first researches
    show that a huge work was done in Moscow for entangling this case".

    Mahmudov said ages of persons introduced as 26 Baku commissars in
    the historic books coincided with that 23 bodies found in the grave
    were between 20 and 50. "11 of 23 bodies found in Sahil (Seaside)
    Park were at 20-29, 11 were at 30-39, one - at 40-49. It was found
    out that two of three missed persons were at 40-49 and one was at
    30-39 as a result of confronting them with the list of 26.

    It was seen from the list that there were three among 26 at age above
    39: Shaumyan (40), Azizbayov (42) and Amiryan (45). After researching
    the photo-materials, the experts did not rule out that the body of
    person at this age was Azizbayov's".

    Director of the institute said mass media issued mass wrong reports
    about "26". "Some newspapers even published materials taken from
    the Soviet Encyclopedia, which creates wrong idea about the 26,
    who were executioners committed genocide against the Azerbaijani
    People. "Founding not 26, but 23 bodies in the Sahil Park showed
    that the history was falsified. It is not correct to introduce "26"
    as "26 Baku commissars". We have a list of 12 commissars only".

    Pictures of exhumation of graves in Sahil Park, expertise and burying
    the remains of 23 bodies in the city cemetery were shown at the end
    of the Scientific Council.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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