#march days

[sadsummer68]

The beauty of the moon and the last days of March

[bonfires-n-hares]

Marsh Marigold, Lady’s Smock, Butterbur Artists: Edith Hilder Rowland Hilder (Wild Flowers, 1957) source

[itsstreetlove]

Awakening

[leaked-notes]

— Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”

[sam-spills-alot]

[nimhandeee]

Ne kadar bana git desende ben yine de

Israrla senin bahçende açmak isteyen Bir papatya olacağım.

[azmission]

Today is the 103th anniversary of March days, or the large-scale killings and genocide against the Azeri-Turkic, Jewish and other Tatar-Moslem populations of Azerbaijan at the hand of the Soviet-Communist and Armenian Dashnaktsutiun “revolutionaries”. Supported by the Soviet government in Russia, the head of Baku Soviet Bolsheviks - Stepan Shahumyan (of Armenian decent) facilitated the unbelievable atrocities and murders of peaceful residents of Baku, Guba, Shamakha, Zangezur, with hopes that the victorious Bolsheviks will favour the Armenians after the invasion of the South Caucasus. With the help of Turkish army and Nuru Pasha, as well as the local efforts, the Dashnak and Bolshevik terrorists were flushed out and in the following months, Azerbaijanis were able to build their first independent state - Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the May of 1918. However, March days is remembered as one fo the most terrible events in our history of independence. The numbers vary, but based on the reports from the British, Turkish and American consulates, it is estimated that  between 300,000 and 700,000 Azerbaijans were murdered, burned and killed between in the span of weeks between March and April of 1918. Mass graves are still being discovered all along the Caspian plaines where Shahumyan’s Dashnaktsutiun terrorists committed the worst of the killings. This coincides with the proposed route of Soviet-Communist invasion of Azerbaijan that was, thankfully, prevent at the time. The second picture shows the Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba where the most recent of these mass graves have been discovered in 2007.

March 31, 1918 (March days) is remembered as the day of genocide of Azerbaijanis. 

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Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

The Mouth of Krishna

2019, #799 Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf