US journalists visit Guba Genocide Memorial Complex in Azerbaijan

A group of US journalists and media experts has visited the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex in Azerbaijan, Report informs.

The guests visited the monument erected at the burial place of the victims of the genocide committed by the criminal Armenian military units in Guba in 1918, and were informed in detail about the genocide committed by the Armenian-Bolshevik formations.

It was noted that the memorial complex, created with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, was opened on September 18, 2013. Here it is possible to get information in several languages about the acts of genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijani people in various regions of the republic in the last century.

On April 1, 2007, during earthworks, the Guba mass grave was discovered. After that, the staff of the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science conducted extensive studies of the mass grave. As a result of research, it was found that the burial is connected with the genocide by Armenians against the local civilian population in 1918.

The delegation included Azerbaijani journalist Vusala Abbasova, student of Yale University and reporter of US bureau of the Report Information Agency, Afram Kosafi, head of the UN bureau of Arab News, former representative of the world's leading media organizations in the conflict regions of Afghanistan, Iraq and South Lebanon (who worked for many years as a war correspondent (Fox TV, CNN, Al Jazeera), Paola Vargas, New York and Washington correspondent of the well-known television network of the Republic of Colombia (Caracol TV and Canal )famous blog writer, Paolo von Shirac, founder and chief of Schirach Report Selcuk Acar, photojournalist of the US bureau of Anadolu Agency, founder of Turkish Journal and Calvin Dark, president of RC Communications, well-known journalist and political commentator.