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File No.41
The Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan
The Guba Uyezd and Town Revolutionary Committee (Revkom)
No. 2076, July 07, 1920
The Town of Guba
July 14
To: the Guba Municipal investigator
Please find hereby attached for further action files of cases of
the Guba Municipal investigators No.No.529, 93, 413, 57, 4, 26, 55, 22,
28, 218, 69, 40, 14, 18, 11, 15 54, 36, 45, 31, 33, 38, 41, 42, 47.
Signed by: the Revkom Chairman,
The Executive Officer
Reference: SARA, f.1061, op.1, d.95, l.12
File No.42
RESOLUTION
On this 10th day of October, year 1920,
The First Guba Investigation Commission,
Upon examination of the present three-volume case concer-
ning the devastation of the town of Guba, the villages of Guba Uyezd
and the violence committed towards the residents of the said town
and villages,
Mindful of the sentiments of ethnic hostility, i.e. ethnic hostility
as a driving force of the perpetrators of the criminal offences men-
tioned in the files, committed in early 1918, and
Aware of the suspension of the prosecution and penalty of the
perpetrators due to the pardon issued by the former Government of
Azerbaijan dd. February 9, 1920 and applied to all cases under investi-
gation, and cancellation of the present three-volume case pursuant to
the abovementioned pardon of February 9, 1920, and the Resolution
of the Board of the Public Commissariat on Justice (Narkonyust) of the
Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan dd. June 1, 1920,
The Investigation Commission does hereby