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FROM HIN MARAGHA TO NOR MARAGHA
http://karabakh-open.info/en/subjecten/4068-en944 Saturday, 13 April
2013 12:25
Twenty-one years have passed since the Maragha massacres yet those
agonizing days live freshly in the memory of Maragha inhabitants.
"I was in my fourth form when the village inhabitants were massacred.
I can't forget a terrifying event when escaping from the village
we saw an old woman's head cut off on the road. My grandfather was
run over by a tank, all the old people living in our district were
crushed by a tank," Liana Simonyan says.
According to Maragha inhabitant Mileta Gabrielyan the massacres of
their village were like those of the Armenian Genocide Mets Eghern.
"Everything was the same as in 1915. We escaped from the village
following one another in a long string passing through fields
and brushwood barefooted, half naked and watching from afar our
native village burning down. When the village was liberated my son
returned there and saw that nothing had remained of it, the houses
were plundered and ruined. My son told everything he saw on his way:
the ears of our neighbour were cut off and thrown away on the road,
somebody else's hands lay about on the way."
"Our house was in the upper part of the village, we saw everything
earlier and escaped not to fall victims. We reached Stepanakert
on foot leading our way through fields and woods. My husband was a
frequent visitor to the regions of Nor Maragha, we saw that it was a
suitable place and gathered together to found Nor Maragha. I am one of
the firt resettlers. It was difficult to find strength to live forth
after having seen so many disasters. Life in Nor Maragha was rather
hard. We had to live without electricity for 4 years. Today life
is also very hard, there is no workplace, we are engaged in cattle
breeding, we live on our benefits but the most important thing is that
we have survived and are alive now," 72-year-old Lyusa Mezhlumyan said.
P.S. In 1992 Maragha as well as Margushevan was one of the greatest
communities and the richest farms of Nagorno Karabakh. Today the
villages are under the enemies' control.
The last population census in Hin Maragha took place in 1991. Maragha
had 2513 and Margushevan 2500 inhabitants all in all 1500 families.
The greatest and richest community of Artsakh was only 1 km far from
the Azerbaijani Mirbashir town and was naturally at the target of
the opponents' attack.
The attacks of April 10 were not the first and not the last ones. On
this day the enemy just managed to enter the village for a few hours
which were fixed in the history as the genocide of Maragha. This,
however, did not break the villagers' will to live and to struggle.
There were many other fights. The inhabitants resisted heroically,
they left Maragha in June when all the neighbouring residences were
deserted.
Today some of them have settled in Nor Maragha and do their best to
develop the village.
http://karabakh-open.info/en/subjecten/4068-en944 Saturday, 13 April
2013 12:25
Twenty-one years have passed since the Maragha massacres yet those
agonizing days live freshly in the memory of Maragha inhabitants.
"I was in my fourth form when the village inhabitants were massacred.
I can't forget a terrifying event when escaping from the village
we saw an old woman's head cut off on the road. My grandfather was
run over by a tank, all the old people living in our district were
crushed by a tank," Liana Simonyan says.
According to Maragha inhabitant Mileta Gabrielyan the massacres of
their village were like those of the Armenian Genocide Mets Eghern.
"Everything was the same as in 1915. We escaped from the village
following one another in a long string passing through fields
and brushwood barefooted, half naked and watching from afar our
native village burning down. When the village was liberated my son
returned there and saw that nothing had remained of it, the houses
were plundered and ruined. My son told everything he saw on his way:
the ears of our neighbour were cut off and thrown away on the road,
somebody else's hands lay about on the way."
"Our house was in the upper part of the village, we saw everything
earlier and escaped not to fall victims. We reached Stepanakert
on foot leading our way through fields and woods. My husband was a
frequent visitor to the regions of Nor Maragha, we saw that it was a
suitable place and gathered together to found Nor Maragha. I am one of
the firt resettlers. It was difficult to find strength to live forth
after having seen so many disasters. Life in Nor Maragha was rather
hard. We had to live without electricity for 4 years. Today life
is also very hard, there is no workplace, we are engaged in cattle
breeding, we live on our benefits but the most important thing is that
we have survived and are alive now," 72-year-old Lyusa Mezhlumyan said.
P.S. In 1992 Maragha as well as Margushevan was one of the greatest
communities and the richest farms of Nagorno Karabakh. Today the
villages are under the enemies' control.
The last population census in Hin Maragha took place in 1991. Maragha
had 2513 and Margushevan 2500 inhabitants all in all 1500 families.
The greatest and richest community of Artsakh was only 1 km far from
the Azerbaijani Mirbashir town and was naturally at the target of
the opponents' attack.
The attacks of April 10 were not the first and not the last ones. On
this day the enemy just managed to enter the village for a few hours
which were fixed in the history as the genocide of Maragha. This,
however, did not break the villagers' will to live and to struggle.
There were many other fights. The inhabitants resisted heroically,
they left Maragha in June when all the neighbouring residences were
deserted.
Today some of them have settled in Nor Maragha and do their best to
develop the village.