On March 23, 1920, Turkish-Azerbaijani troops with the Moslem dwellers
profited of the preemptive strike, undertook by the small detachment under
plenipotentiary of the ARFD Bureau Arsen Mikayelian, and fulfilled a massacre
of the Shushi Armenians with a burning the city down. This events are testified
in the memoirs of the witnesses together with great amount of archival material.
The total destruction of Shushi is elucidated by historians of the Republic of
Armenia, as well as by Diaspora and foreign specialists.
All the scholars in accord point out that the mass murder of the civil
population at Shushi and complete destruction of its Armenian sector was a
crime against humanity, which constitutes the Genocide.