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[[Image:MaragharMassacre.jpg|thumb|right|Azeri armored vehicles approaching Maraghar on April 10, 1992]]
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The '''Maraghar Massacre''' according to Armenian and pro-Armenian sources was the April 10, 1992 killing of ethnic [[Armenians|Armenian]] civil population of the village Maraghar by [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] troops during the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]] .
The '''Maraghar Massacre''' was the April 10, 1992 killing of the ethnic [[Armenians|Armenian]] civil population of the village Maraghar by [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] troops during the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]].


According to [[Caroline Cox]], the supporter of Karabakh Armenians,<ref>Thomas De Waal. Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war. p. 176</ref> who observed the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses, Azerbaijani forces attacked the Armenian town of Maragha, decapitated about forty five villagers, burned and looted much of the town, and [[kidnap]]ped about one hundred women and children<ref>[http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/april27/8t5092.html Christianity Today Article]</ref>. The inhabitants of Maragha who were driven out after the attack were unable to return to their village after the [[cease-fire]] of 1994, as the area was still under Azeri control.
According to Baroness [[Caroline Cox]], who observed the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses, Azerbaijani forces attacked the Armenian town of Maragha, decapitated about forty five villagers, burned and looted much of the town, and [[kidnap]]ped about one hundred women and children.<ref>[http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/april27/8t5092.html Christianity Today Article]</ref> The inhabitants of Maragha who were driven out after the attack were unable to return to their village after the [[cease-fire]] of 1994, as the area was still under Azeri control.


<blockquote>“Maraghar: the name of this village is associated with a massacre which never reached the world’s headlines, although at least 45 Armenians died cruel deaths. During the CSI mission to Nagorno Karabakh in April, news came through that a village in the north, in Martakert region, had been overrun by Azeri-Turks on April 10 and there had been a number of civilians killed. A group went to obtain evidence and found a village with survivors in a state of shock, their burn-out homes still smoldering, charred remains of corpses and vertebrae still on the ground, where people had their heads sawn off, and their bodies burnt in front of their families. 45 people had been massacred and 100 were missing, possibly suffering a fate worse than death. In order to verify the stories, the delegation asked the villagers if they would exhume the bodies which they had already buried. In great anguish, they did so, allowing photographs to be taken of the decapitated, charred bodies. Later when asked about publicizing the tragedy, they replied they were reluctant to do so as ‘ we Armenians are not very good at showing our grief to the world’.<ref>Ethnic Cleansing in Progress, War in Nagorno Karabakh, by Caroline Cox and John Eibner, Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, Zurich, London, Washington, 1993</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>“Maraghar: the name of this village is associated with a massacre which never reached the world’s headlines, although at least 45 Armenians died cruel deaths. During the CSI mission to Nagorno Karabakh in April, news came through that a village in the north, in Martakert region, had been overrun by Azeri-Turks on April 10 and there had been a number of civilians killed. A group went to obtain evidence and found a village with survivors in a state of shock, their burn-out homes still smoldering, charred remains of corpses and vertebrae still on the ground, where people had their heads sawn off, and their bodies burnt in front of their families. 45 people had been massacred and 100 were missing, possibly suffering a fate worse than death. In order to verify the stories, the delegation asked the villagers if they would exhume the bodies which they had already buried. In great anguish, they did so, allowing photographs to be taken of the decapitated, charred bodies. Later when asked about publicizing the tragedy, they replied they were reluctant to do so as ‘ we Armenians are not very good at showing our grief to the world’.<ref>Ethnic Cleansing in Progress, War in Nagorno Karabakh, by Caroline Cox and John Eibner, Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, Zurich, London, Washington, 1993</ref></blockquote>


According to Georgiy Petrossian, Chairman of the Parliament of the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]], fifty-three civilians were killed during the attack on Maraga.<ref>Bloodshed in the Caucasus: Escalation of the Armed Conflict in Nagorno Karabakh - Page 29 by Rachel Denber, Robert Kogod Goldman</ref>
According to Georgiy Petrossian, Chairman of the Parliament of the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]], fifty-three civilians were killed during the attack on Maraga.<ref>Denber R. ''Bloodshed in the Caucasus: Escalation of the Armed Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh''. New York: Helsinki Watch, September 1992, p. 29.</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 21:01, 5 July 2010

File:MaragharMassacre.jpg
Azeri armored vehicles approaching Maraghar on April 10, 1992

The Maraghar Massacre was the April 10, 1992 killing of the ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

According to Baroness Caroline Cox, who observed the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses, Azerbaijani forces attacked the Armenian town of Maragha, decapitated about forty five villagers, burned and looted much of the town, and kidnapped about one hundred women and children.[1] The inhabitants of Maragha who were driven out after the attack were unable to return to their village after the cease-fire of 1994, as the area was still under Azeri control.

“Maraghar: the name of this village is associated with a massacre which never reached the world’s headlines, although at least 45 Armenians died cruel deaths. During the CSI mission to Nagorno Karabakh in April, news came through that a village in the north, in Martakert region, had been overrun by Azeri-Turks on April 10 and there had been a number of civilians killed. A group went to obtain evidence and found a village with survivors in a state of shock, their burn-out homes still smoldering, charred remains of corpses and vertebrae still on the ground, where people had their heads sawn off, and their bodies burnt in front of their families. 45 people had been massacred and 100 were missing, possibly suffering a fate worse than death. In order to verify the stories, the delegation asked the villagers if they would exhume the bodies which they had already buried. In great anguish, they did so, allowing photographs to be taken of the decapitated, charred bodies. Later when asked about publicizing the tragedy, they replied they were reluctant to do so as ‘ we Armenians are not very good at showing our grief to the world’.[2]

According to Georgiy Petrossian, Chairman of the Parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, fifty-three civilians were killed during the attack on Maraga.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Christianity Today Article
  2. ^ Ethnic Cleansing in Progress, War in Nagorno Karabakh, by Caroline Cox and John Eibner, Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, Zurich, London, Washington, 1993
  3. ^ Denber R. Bloodshed in the Caucasus: Escalation of the Armed Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York: Helsinki Watch, September 1992, p. 29.

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