Foreign students studying in BSU visited Shamakhi

     The "Novruz lecture" on "The genocide of Azerbaijanis in the memory of a hundred years" was held in Shamakhi by the Ministry of Education.

     The event was attended by Deputy Education Minister Firudin Gurbanov, head of Shamakhi District Executive Authority Asif Agayev, intellectuals, media leaders, NGO representatives, education experts and mass media representatives. At the same time, 30 foreign students, including the USA, Turkey, Russia, Iran, the Czech Republic, China and other countries studying at the higher education institutions attended the seminar.

     Lectures were attended by foreign students from Baku Slavic University, Chinese citizen Meng Fantao, students from Vietnam, Phuong Tran Viet Vietnam, and Pakistani citizen Hussain Sabir. BSU's foreign students interviewed a number of TV channels about the Shamakhi visit.

     Foreign students first visited the statue of national leader Heydar Aliyev, then a monument to the memory of the victims of the Shamakhi genocide, and dried sweets.

     Attendees also visited the Juma Mosque, where the massacres of 1918 during the Shamakhi genocide were committed.

     Speaking at the event, Asif Aghayev, the head of Shamakhi District Executive Authority, spoke about the genocide committed in Shamakhi in March 1918. Deputy Minister of Education Firudin Gurbanov said that the genocide of 1918 was one of the most terrible manifestations of the genocide against our people and that the Armenians committed bloody acts against humanity.

       Then Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Anar Isgandarov delivered a lecture on "The genocide of Azerbaijanis in the memory of the century".

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