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NKR MFA: THE BLOODY EVENTS IN MARAGHA WERE CERTAINLY A WAR CRIME
Wednesday,
April 10
The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the
21st Anniversary of Massacres in Maragha village. The statement
particuilatrly reads:
"The Azerbaijan's military aggression against the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, which became the continuation of Baku policy of violent
crackdown on the expression of free will of the people of Nagorno
Karabakh is abound with outrageous facts of crimes against the
civilian population.
One of its most tragic episodes was a massacre of the population of the
village of Maragha in Martakert region, NKR committed by the units of
the Azerbaijani army on April 10, 1992. The bloody events in Maragha
were certainly a war crime, as the attack on the village was not driven
by military necessity but aimed to annihilate its peaceful population.
On this day, after intensive artillery shelling the Azerbaijani armed
units invaded the peaceful village and committed a ruthless reprisal
over defenseless people. This fact was later confirmed by various
human rights organizations, including the Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International. According to various sources from 53 to 100
people were killed, more than 60 people including 9 children and 29
women were taken hostages. More than 30 hostages were subsequently
killed in Azerbaijani captivity. Two weeks later, the village was
subjected to a renewed attack and its inhabitants who returned to
bury their relatives yet again fell victim to atrocities committed
by the Azerbaijani army.
This hideous crime in Maragha became the next in the chain of the
anti-Armenian pogroms and deportations in Northern Artsakh, as well as
Sumgait, Baku, Kirovobad and other settlements of Azerbaijan, which
aimed at intimidating people and depriving them of the opportunity
to live on their native land.
It was the lack of the adequate political and legal assessment of
the international community of the massacres and ethnic cleansing of
the Armenian population in Azerbaijan which paved a way for the war
crime committed by the Azerbaijani army in the village of Maragha.
Impunity for those crimes has created a fertile ground for the
implanting of the cult of zealous hatred towards Armenians and
anything Armenian and uncurbed propaganda of xenophobia, intolerance
and militarism in Azerbaijan.
To break this vicious circle and prevent the recurrence of similar
tragedies in the future, the massacre in Maragha should be condemned
by the international community, and its organizers and perpetuators
punished".
TODAY, 22:57
Aysor.am
Wednesday,
April 10
The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the
21st Anniversary of Massacres in Maragha village. The statement
particuilatrly reads:
"The Azerbaijan's military aggression against the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, which became the continuation of Baku policy of violent
crackdown on the expression of free will of the people of Nagorno
Karabakh is abound with outrageous facts of crimes against the
civilian population.
One of its most tragic episodes was a massacre of the population of the
village of Maragha in Martakert region, NKR committed by the units of
the Azerbaijani army on April 10, 1992. The bloody events in Maragha
were certainly a war crime, as the attack on the village was not driven
by military necessity but aimed to annihilate its peaceful population.
On this day, after intensive artillery shelling the Azerbaijani armed
units invaded the peaceful village and committed a ruthless reprisal
over defenseless people. This fact was later confirmed by various
human rights organizations, including the Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International. According to various sources from 53 to 100
people were killed, more than 60 people including 9 children and 29
women were taken hostages. More than 30 hostages were subsequently
killed in Azerbaijani captivity. Two weeks later, the village was
subjected to a renewed attack and its inhabitants who returned to
bury their relatives yet again fell victim to atrocities committed
by the Azerbaijani army.
This hideous crime in Maragha became the next in the chain of the
anti-Armenian pogroms and deportations in Northern Artsakh, as well as
Sumgait, Baku, Kirovobad and other settlements of Azerbaijan, which
aimed at intimidating people and depriving them of the opportunity
to live on their native land.
It was the lack of the adequate political and legal assessment of
the international community of the massacres and ethnic cleansing of
the Armenian population in Azerbaijan which paved a way for the war
crime committed by the Azerbaijani army in the village of Maragha.
Impunity for those crimes has created a fertile ground for the
implanting of the cult of zealous hatred towards Armenians and
anything Armenian and uncurbed propaganda of xenophobia, intolerance
and militarism in Azerbaijan.
To break this vicious circle and prevent the recurrence of similar
tragedies in the future, the massacre in Maragha should be condemned
by the international community, and its organizers and perpetuators
punished".
TODAY, 22:57
Aysor.am