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mahalle (neighborhood).

The overall loss I suffered from the pillage perpetrated by the

Armenians is 55,945 rubles in old money, or 100,030 rubles in current

rate. I do hereby request to attach the list of robbed valuables to the

files of the case.

In May, en route from Khachmaz to Guba, I saw lots of dead

bodies of the Muslims scattered everywhere in ditches, eaten by jac-

kals and other beasts. Section 3 of Guba was totally ruined.

No additional information available.

Read aloud to and signed by Abasbey Hassanbeyov

SignedbyAlexandrovich,MammadkhanTekinski

and A.Klughe

members of the Commission.

Reference:

APD EOPRA f.277, op.2, d.15, ll.83-84(verso)

File No.72

Record of Examination

On this 21

day of December, 1918, in Guba

Novatski, the member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission

established by the Government of Azerbaijan, examined the following

person as a witness, pursuant to the Criminal Court Regulations:

Witness: Mullah Hajjibaba Akhundzadeh, aged 60, Guba

resident temporarily staying at Tazapir Mosque, Baku.

I am the akhund (Shiite minister) of the town of Guba. In April

this year, a Bolshevik unit led by David Ghelovani arrived in Guba.

Ghelovani gathered the town representatives. Abdulrahman Efendi

Imam and I were also forced to attend the gathering so that together

with the others we recognize the Bolshevik power. Under duress, we

complied with the Bolsheviks, however neither Abdulrahman Efendi

nor myself never stated that the Bolshevik doctrine is not contrave-

ning the Shariah.

Ghelovani started enforcing the Bolshevik regulations. Imme-

diately upon his arrival in Guba he set all Armenians free as he be-

lieved there was no danger for them. The matter was that after the

bloody March events in Baku, the town of Shemakha and Shemakha

Uyezd, some dubious characters among the Muslims, eager to abuse

Documents on the Devastation of Guba

Witness Testimonies of Residents of the Town of Guba