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aggrieved person:
Hajji Syyid Abdulkhalil Hajji Seyyidali oghlu, aged 70, resi-
dent of Seyyidler village, Mushkur Precinct, Guba Uyezd.
The Guba Uyezd chief Alibey warned the residents of Muslim vil-
lages adjacent to the railroad about Armenian attacks and pogroms,
so we succeeded in sheltering women and children beforehand and
decided to meet the Armenians requesting them to spare our vil-
lages. However, once we got to know that the Armenians accept no
envoys and a number of villages and Khudat station were left in ruins,
we changed our mind. In Khudat station only, the Armenians burned
down my 23 shops and a caravanserai. The total damage I suffered is
no less than 100 thousand rubles. Seyyidler village managed to avoid
the devastation. I have nothing to add to this.
Testimonies read out loud to and signed by the victim (in Arabic
characters)
Translated and signed by E.Khanbudagov
Signed by A.Novatski, a member of the Commission
Reference: SARA, f.1061, op.1, d.97, l.101-101(verso)
File No.108
Record of Examination
On this 21st day of December, 1918, in Guba
Novatski, the member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission
established by the Government of Azerbaijan, examined the following
aggrieved person:
Mammad Rasul Hammad oghlu, aged 43, resident of Shollar
village, Mushkur Precinct, Guba Uyezd, illiterate.
I am an honorable resident of Shollar village of Guba Uyezd.
Our village is placed on the railroad bed, one verst away from Shollar
Station. All together, the village includes 16 households with barns
and storage facilities.While the Bolsheviks were attacking the villages
adjacent to the railroad, we fled our residences leaving everything to
the mercy of fate. Upon our return several days later we found our vil-
lage totally devastated: houses, barns and several other villages were
burned down, and personal assets plundered. We did not see the Bol-