13 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE MARAGHA TRAGEDY
Support A1+!The events of thirteen years’ prescription in the village of Maragha of the NKR Martakert region occupy a special place by the depth of human tragedy, the level of cruelty, the number of people exposed to violence and captured.
On April 10, 1992, as a result of the Azerbaijani regular army units’ attack the village was basically destroyed. According to various data, from 53 to 100 peaceful inhabitants were brutally killed, including 30 women, 20 of them of declining years. Their bodies were mutilated, beheaded, divided and burnt. 53 peaceful people were captured, including 9 children, 29 women (about 3 tens of hostages were then killed in the Azerbaijani captivity).
After 2 weeks Maragha was again attacked, the population deported, the houses robbed, many of them burnt. The deportation of the population was accompanied with the acts of violence and humiliation.
The observers note the events in Maragha also in the context that the violence on the peaceful population was made in the frames of military operation by a concrete military unit. It was not accidentally that the majority of the hostages appeared in private houses of the servicemen of the Interior Ministry, Defense Ministry, Detachments of Militia of Special Assignment, etc. The destiny of many hostages is not known yet.
Baroness Karoline Cox, who had visited the place of the tragedy, was shocked to the innermost of her heart by what she had seen. «They are not of human race» - the Baroness so spoke of the DMSA servicemen who had carried out the slaughter.
