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Azerbaijani authorities have banned to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack at Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA), reports the Azerbaijani news portal "Minval.az."

"No commemoration ceremony regarding the attack will be held in Azerbaijani State Oil Academy. No need for this," stated the vice-rector of ASOA Gasim Mammadov.

According to him, 5 years has passed since this incident and the students who studied at the Academy at the time have graduated it already. "We see no need to excite our students once again with such kind ov events. The government regarded it as a terrorist act. These types of incidents occur in the higher and secondary educational institutions of the most advanced and developed countries. No one is insured against terrorism, and such accidents can happen anywhere in the world," he noted.

The Vice-rector also advised the people to stop mourning the terrorist attack.

Azerbaijani news portal "Haqqin.az" reports that today Azerbaijani State Oil Academy was cordoned off by the police.

Note that on 12 April 2009 as result of clashes in Oil Academy 12 men were killed and 13 wounded. Farda Gadirov, the initiator of clashes committed suicide on the spot. Those accused of the conspiracy, Javidan Amirov, Nadir Aliyev, Najaf Suleymanov were sentenced to life imprisonment. Arif Gabulov was sentenced to 11 year imprisonment. Except Suleymanov all the defendants confessed that they had testified under pressure.

Ghumashyan Mardun Grigorevich, 60-years old Armenian, citizen of Georgia was named as the customer of the massacres in Oil Academy of Azerbaijan. It was reported that he was under the investigation of Interpol. However, correspondent of newspaper Yeni Musavat Tofig Yagublu determined to find out the truth went to Georgian village Shulaver and without any help from Interpol found Ghumashyan in the courtyard of his house. The interview with 60-year-old baker became a sensation. As it turned out Mardun Ghumashyan didn’t know anything about Farda Gadirov who initiated the massacres in Oil Academy.

Moreover, when Ggumashyan learnt that Azerbaijani authorities declared him a “terrorist”, he appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, where he learnt that Azerbaijan made no appeals about his arrest. On its turn, Azerbaijani newspaper Zerkalo appealed to the law enforcement bodies of Georgia. “Person on duty of Ministry of Internal Affairs told our correspondent that the Ministry didn’t get any appeals in regard to Mardun Ghumashyan. This proves that Ghumashyan told the truth,” Zerkalo wrote.