HUMAN REMAINS DISCOVERED IN NORTH AZERBAIJAN ARE RESULTS OF TERRIBLE GENOCIDE: PACE PRESIDENT

Trend News Agency
03.07.08 13:48
Azerbaijan

Luis Maria de Puig, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe (PACE), considers that human remains, found at
the mass grave in the territory of the Azerbaijani Northern District
of Guba, are the results of terrible genocide. "I cannot say who
committed this genocide. However, it is a terrible genocide and I
saw how people had been killed savagely," the PACE President told
journalists after visiting mass graveyard in Guba, on 3 July.

PACE President Luis Maria de Puig arrived in Azerbaijan on 30
June with a 3-day visit. Puig met with Speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament Ogtay Asadov, members of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE,
members of political parties represented in the Parliament and human
rights activists, President Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister
Artur Rasizade.

Puig, the PACE President, visited the Northern region of Azerbaijan
together with Asadov, the speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament. Puig
familiarized with the state of national minorities residing in the
Northern region of Azerbaijan.

Mass graveyard was discovered during the construction of the stadium
in Guba in 2007. Researchers said that human remains, buried in
the grave, belonged to Azerbaijanis, who exposed to the genocide
committed by Armenians in 1918. So far, a total of 190 human remains
were discovered.

The PACE President said that, he was horrified from what he
witnessed. Puig noted that he would inform the PACE special commission
about human remains discovered in Guba: "I will advise the commission
that they should visit this area."

The Azerbaijani speaker said that it was important for each Azerbaijani
to visit this graveyard.