Azerbaijani media give corpses of Armenians killed in 1905 in Baku for
‘Azerbaijanis killed in 1918 in Shamakhi’
17:05 14/02/2015 >> SOCIETY
Azerbaijani website “1news.az” attached faked photographs to the
article about fictitious “genocide in Shamakhi” allegedly committed by
the Armenian Dashnaks and Bolsheviks.
In the article the corpses of Armenians killed during the pogroms in
Baku in 1905 and gathered in the courtyard of the Armenian Church for
the funeral are presented as victims of “Armenian aggression”. On the
other photos from this series, but from other angles Armenian priest
is clearly visible. Moreover, the actual circumstances in which the
photo was taken cannot be denied at least because it was published in
French edition of “Le Grand Illustre” in an article published on
February 19, 1905 which was descriping the pogroms of Armenians in
Baku, naturally long before the events taken place in 1918 in
Shamakhi.
Most apparently, photographs with the corpses of Armenians killed in
Baku in 1905 and presented as Azerbaijanis, allegedly killed in 1918
in Shamakhi, have been taken by the Azerbaijani media from the book of
the Azerbaijani historian Solmaz Rustamov-Togidi titled “1918.
Massacre in Azerbaijan in photos and documents” in the annotation of
which was stated that in the book “rare photographs of the tragic fate
of tens of thousands Azerbaijanis killed in Baku and Shamakh are
reflected.”
The book of Rustamov-Togidi presents the same photo of the victims of
the Armenian pogroms noted as taken in Baku; however the victims are
resubmitted as the Azerbaijanis. The annotation to the photo reads:
“Armenian atrocities in Baku” which gives the readers wrong
impression.
Note that this is not the first attempt of the Azerbaijanis of using
falsified photos in propaganda purposes. A number of such attempts has
been documented and exposed on the website “Xocali.net” project.