Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote about Shusha in the 1920s : " ... in this town , which formerly , of course , was healthy and with every amenity , the picture of catastrophe and massacres was terribly vivid ... They say after the massacres all the wells were full of corpses . ( ... ) We did n't see anyone in the streets or on the mountain . Only downtown , in the market-square there were a lot of people , but there was n't any Armenian among them , they were all Muslims . " On January 21 , 1936 , in the Moscow Kremlin , during the reception of the delegation from the Azerbaijan SSR , Sergo Ordzhonikidze remembers his visit to destroyed Shusha : " Even today I remember what I saw in Shusha in 1920 , with horror . The most beautiful Armenian town was completely destroyed , and in the wells we saw corpses of women and children . " The former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic , Behbud Khan Javanshir , was assassinated during Operation Nemesis of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation for his involvement in these events
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Shusha massacre