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The documentary bestseller "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power " written by Daniel Yergin which tells the story of massacre of Armenians in Azerbaijan in 1918, was sponsored by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, reads the articles in the Azerbaijani news portal "Haqqin.az".

According to the article, the author won the Pulitzer Prize for this book - one of the most prestigious awards in the sphere of the U.S. literature, journalism, music and theater.

The book explains that the governmental officials, fearing revolution, distributed weapons to Muslim-Tatars who massacred all Christian Armenians, including the oil industry businessman.

"Subsequently, there was a legend about one of the richest Armenian oilmen - Adamov: he was a great shooter, he took up a position on the balcony of his house and together with his son stood the siege for three days, until he died. His house was set on fire, and forty of his employees were either perished in the flames, or torn apart by the crowd.

The Tatars attacked the oil facilities in Baku and its suburbs over and over again, killing every Armenian they found, burning houses in which the Armenians found refuge, looting any property they found on their way," the author of the letter quotes from the book.

It’s also noted in the book that the local Muslims, incited by the Turks, just like in the days of the revolution in 1905, began looting and rioting, killing the Armenians and not sparing even those who were at the hospitals.

The Azerbaijani site complains that the officials responsible for of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, because of their provincialism and lack of knowledge in foreign languages is sponsoring "something which shouldn’t be sponsored."
It is also notes that the disposition of the State Oil Company on this issue is not announced till now.