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shadi Talyb oghlu, Meshadi Mussa Zeynal oghlu and others. The cases
of tortures and mockery were far not infrequent. E.g. the soldiers or-
dered honorable elders to deliver Muslim women for them. Refusal
to execute this order resulted in the murder of Alipasha Kerbelai Ma-
harram oghlu and his son, the latter one was stabbed to death by
bayonet in front of his father with his eyes picked out and face and
stomach chopped. The overall number of slain men, women and chil-
dren ranged around two thousand. About a hundred Muslim women
and maidens were raped by the Armenians, the names of victims are
kept in secret by their kin.
Assets of Muslim residents were mercilessly looted. According
to the estimates made by public figures, Amazasp’s squad looted four
million rubles cash, gold, golden works and gems worth four and a
half million rubles, various goods and foodstuffs amounting to twen-
ty-five million. Besides this, the gangs of Amazasp set fire on one
hundred and five residential and public premises in Guba owned by
Ibrahimbey Shykhlyarski, Meshadi Ali Husseynov, Orujali Ahmadov,
Bakir Mehraliyev, Sattar Mammadyarov, Hudayat Amirbeyov, Gafar
Orujov, Alibey Zizikski, Rajab Orujev, Youssufbey Abusalambeyov,
Iskandar Abdullayev and others. The houses burned down included
those belonging to religious institutions. The overall damage caused
by arson is equal to one hundred million rubles.
Even before arriving in Guba, Amazasp’s squad attacked a num-
ber of Muslim residential areas adjacent to the railroad, plundering,
looting and slaughtering those who failed to flee, showing no mercy
neither to women, nor to children.
In some cases, local population sent truce envoys to meet the
Armenians with white flags and expressions of compliance. However
the Armenians never bothered to talk to the envoys and looted the
villages they came from. This is exactly what happened in Alikhan-
ly community where the Armenian unit killed the local elder Mirza
Mammad Dadash oghu and Gulhusseyn Maharram oghlu, both sent
as truce envoys. Another case of this kind occurred in Davachi Com-
munity where fifteen honorable elders were sent with traditional
bread-and-salt welcome. The Armenians blatantly refused welcoming
attributes and slaughtered the envoys. Infuriated Amazasp’s squads
displayed no esteem to the Muslims’ religious sentiments, with a
number of mosques desecrated, the holy books of Qur’an torn into
Correspondence of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission. Records of the Investigation and
Judiciary Agencies of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan and
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan