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| 19:36:29 | 11-04-2005 | Politics |
13 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE MARAGHA TRAGEDY
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.