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Lragir.am
12 April 06
Vahram Atanesyan, Chair of the Standing Committee for External
Relations and Information of the NKR National Assembly, gave a news
conference April 10. The news conference was devoted to the massacres
in the village of Maragha, Martakert region, 14 years ago.
Early in the morning in 1992 after an air raid the Azerbaijani
combatants, assisted by a special division of the Soviet army
stationed in Azerbaijan, massacred the peaceful population of the
village. Maragha was not an emplacement, and this operation must be
characterized as a crime against peaceful population.
According to Vahram Atanesyan, about 100 peaceful people were
slaughtered in Maragha, mainly women, children and elderly people.
Presently, the village is controlled by Azerbaijan. Before April 10,
1992 Maragha had over 3000 inhabitants. After the war the natives of
Maragha remaining in Karabakh founded the village of Nor Maragha,
where 300 people live now. "In the context of settlement of the
Karabakh conflict the NKR leadership insist that the resolution of
the problem should include the restoration of territorial integrity
of NKR, particularly I mean the north of Martakert. In the past years
no relevant organizations in our country attended to the assessment
of the economic losses inflicted by Azerbaijan on NKR. No serious
investigation of facts of violence and illegal actions taken by the
Azerbaijani government and troops against the peaceful population of
NKR was carried out. As you know, a Provisional Committee on Facts
of Violence was set up by the NKR National Assembly, and I hope by
December 1, 2006 the committee will manage to sum up the findings on
the tragedy of Maragha and other illegal actions against the peaceful
population in NKR. We must be ready to extend forceful arguments to
the international community that Azerbaijan used the war to carry
out ethnic cleansing," said Vahram Atanesyan.
Lragir.am
12 April 06
Vahram Atanesyan, Chair of the Standing Committee for External
Relations and Information of the NKR National Assembly, gave a news
conference April 10. The news conference was devoted to the massacres
in the village of Maragha, Martakert region, 14 years ago.
Early in the morning in 1992 after an air raid the Azerbaijani
combatants, assisted by a special division of the Soviet army
stationed in Azerbaijan, massacred the peaceful population of the
village. Maragha was not an emplacement, and this operation must be
characterized as a crime against peaceful population.
According to Vahram Atanesyan, about 100 peaceful people were
slaughtered in Maragha, mainly women, children and elderly people.
Presently, the village is controlled by Azerbaijan. Before April 10,
1992 Maragha had over 3000 inhabitants. After the war the natives of
Maragha remaining in Karabakh founded the village of Nor Maragha,
where 300 people live now. "In the context of settlement of the
Karabakh conflict the NKR leadership insist that the resolution of
the problem should include the restoration of territorial integrity
of NKR, particularly I mean the north of Martakert. In the past years
no relevant organizations in our country attended to the assessment
of the economic losses inflicted by Azerbaijan on NKR. No serious
investigation of facts of violence and illegal actions taken by the
Azerbaijani government and troops against the peaceful population of
NKR was carried out. As you know, a Provisional Committee on Facts
of Violence was set up by the NKR National Assembly, and I hope by
December 1, 2006 the committee will manage to sum up the findings on
the tragedy of Maragha and other illegal actions against the peaceful
population in NKR. We must be ready to extend forceful arguments to
the international community that Azerbaijan used the war to carry
out ethnic cleansing," said Vahram Atanesyan.