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Azerbaijani website "1news.az" attached faked photographs to the article about fictitious "genocide in Shamakhi" allegedly committed by the Armenian Dashnaks and Bolsheviks.

In the article the corpses of Armenians killed during the pogroms in Baku in 1905 and gathered in the courtyard of the Armenian Church for the funeral are presented as victims of "Armenian aggression". On the other photos from this series, but from other angles Armenian priest is clearly visible. Moreover, the actual circumstances in which the photo was taken cannot be denied at least because it was published in French edition of “Le Grand Illustre” in an article published on February 19, 1905 which was descriping the pogroms of Armenians in Baku, naturally long before the events taken place in 1918 in Shamakhi.

Most apparently, photographs with the corpses of Armenians killed in Baku in 1905 and presented as Azerbaijanis, allegedly killed in 1918 in Shamakhi, have been taken by the Azerbaijani media from the book of the Azerbaijani historian Solmaz Rustamov-Togidi titled "1918. Massacre in Azerbaijan in photos and documents" in the annotation of which was stated that in the book "rare photographs of the tragic fate of tens of thousands Azerbaijanis killed in Baku and Shamakh are reflected.”

The book of Rustamov-Togidi presents the same photo of the victims of the Armenian pogroms noted as taken in Baku; however the victims are resubmitted as the Azerbaijanis. The annotation to the photo reads: "Armenian atrocities in Baku" which gives the readers wrong impression.

Note that this is not the first attempt of the Azerbaijanis of using falsified photos in propaganda purposes. A number of such attempts has been documented and exposed on the website “Xocali.net” project.