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COMPACT DISC ON SLAUGHTER IN THE VILLAGE OF MARAGHA RELEASED

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Presentation of CD, containing video and photo sources, archive documents, publications and evidence of eye-witnesses of mass slaughter of civilian population of the village of Maragha, NKR Martakert region, by Azerbaijani armed units, took place in the Artsakh State University.

The disk was released upon the initiative of the Karabakhi journalist Narine Aghabalian in “The Milky Way” studio and was timed to the 15th anniversary of the tragic events in Maragha. The archive documents in Armenian, Russian and English were provided by the NKR MFA, “The Fund against Legal Despotism” and the others.

While opening the presentation, which was attended by representatives of authorities, community, and the republic’s journalists, Chairman of the NKR National Assembly Standing Commission on Foreign Relations Vahram Atanesian noted that Maragha had not been a weapon emplacement and had not constituted a menace to the Azerbaijani side, but the mass crimes had been committed toward civilian citizens.

“Maragha became one of the most monstrous demonstrations of the Azerbaijani authorities anti-Armenian policy”, - the deputy emphasized.

By comparing different lists it was established that 81 civilian citizens, 67 people were seized hostages in Maragha. The fate of many of them remains unknown till now.

At the presentation NKR National Assembly Chairman Ashot Ghoulian stressed that the slaughter in Maragha corresponded to genocide according to all parameters. “The eyes of witnesses of the tragedy in Maragha express the same as the eyes of the people who went through the genocide of 1915. Maragha continues to present day”, - the Speaker noted.

According to him, there are no positive changes today in Azerbaijan’s policy toward Armenians.

By the depth of human tragedy, degree of cruelty, number of people, who were exposed to violence and were seized hostages, the tragic events in the Karabakhi village Maragha take special place in the chronicle of the Karabakh national and liberation movement, and it is necessary to bring to the notice of the world community the truth about them – such an idea was run all in the course of the CD’s presentation.