From the address of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to the people of Azerbaijan on the occasion of March 31 – Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis

29 March 2005

Settlement of the Armenian population in historical Azerbaijani lands- Karabakh and Zangezur, from the beginning of the 19th century, forcibly changing the demographic situation, mass massacres in 1905 and 1918, aimed at scaring and expelling the Azerbaijani population, the transfer of Zangezur to Armenia in the 1920s, the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their ancestral homes in the territory of present-day Armenia in 1948–1953  are bloody pages in the history of Armenian aggression against our people.