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Quba mass grave

The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Guba mass grave - mass grave of victims of March days of 1918 in Guba ( Azerbaijan ). Mass grave was discovered while constructing a stadium in Guba in mid-April 2007. After that there was formed expedition group and an archeological excavation was conducted. During excavations ther were uncovered the bones of around 400 people, including over 50 children and 100 women. In 2008 Luis Maria de Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , visited this mass cemetery commemorating the massacre of the peaceful population and said that he was horrified. It's planned to build the museum at the site of the mass grave.1

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Then

mass grave site claimed to be from 1918 located in the town of quba in northeastern azerbaijan

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mass grave site from 1918 in the town of quba in northeastern azerbaijan

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