AZERI SPEAKER SUGGEST ENGAGING FOREIGN EXPERTS TO STUDY GENOCIDE …

Interfax News Agency
July 4 2008
Azerbaijan

It is necessary to make foreign anthropologists engaged in examining
and certifying instances of the slaughtering of Azeris by Armenian
nationalists in the Gubinsky and Gusarsky districts of the country
in early 20th century, Azeri preliminary speaker Oktai Asadov said.

PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig and I were horrified when we saw the
remains, because we saw mass graves of people killed through torture,
Asadov said, speaking about his and de Puig’s visit to a mass grave
in the Gubinsky district.

I regret that we studied the evidence [of the slaughter of people in
the aforementioned districts in the early 20th century], but did not
invite foreign anthropologists to study them [the remains]. I ask
Yagub Makhmudov and other MPs tackling this issue to work on this,
so as to invite foreign experts, together with Azeri anthropologists,
to the excavation sites and prove [this tragedy], the speaker said.

Asadov also expressed discontent about the fact that some ambassadors
accredited in Azerbaijan refuse to visit the mass grave during the
visits to the Gubinsky and Gusarsky, explaining this by the fact that
their protocol does not provide for such events.

I treat this as an offence, Asadov said.