GENOCIDE IN MARAGHA WAITS CONDEMNATION
Azat Artsakh Daily, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR]
18 April 07
On April 9 the presentation of "Maragha", a CD by the TV reporter
Narine Aghabalian, took place at Arsakh State University. "Maragha"
includes footages, documents, photos about the massacre of Armenians
in the village of Maragha, Martakert region. The first part includes
an interview with Caroline Cox, member of the British House of Lords
(2006), the footages of the next day of the Genocide. The second part
includes the stories of the people who survived the massacre, IDs,
newspaper and internet stories, maps, satellite photos.
Most documents were provided by Against Legal Arbitrariness Foundation
(Armenia) which prepared on protocol 1503 a package document in
1996-1997 to report to the UN Council for Human Rights, but failed
to for whatever reason. The section of photos contains photos of
exhumation, the victims, Nor Maragha. "We must remember and remind
everyone about Maragha. We owe to the people of Maragha who were killed
or now live in different parts of the world," said Narine Aghabalyan
during the presentation. "It is the most tragic part of the history
of Artsakh, which made me start a quest for materials to assemble
the mosaic of information about the massacre in Maragha. There are
different lists in archives, different figures are offered. Those
lists were compared, a new list was drawn, and according to it 81
were killed, 67 were taken hostages. Study continues because the
witnesses of Maragha are now living in different parts of the world,
and it is difficult to restore the real picture of the tragedy of
Maragha." NKR Speaker Ashot Ghulyan highly appreciated the CD and
described it as a breaking through the wall of propaganda and a
process which must continue to tell the world about the genocide of
Armenians in the village of Maragha, Martakert. He said the CD contains
evidence to the genocide committed in Maragha, which we can present
to the international community, international organizations. "Sumgait
continued in Maragha, massacres, a genocide planned and perpetrated
by the Azerbaijani government," Speaker Ashot Ghulian said.
"Maragha" was produced by the Tsir Katin Studio (Stepanakert) in
500 copies in Armenian, Russian and English in association with
Vardges Anivian. Tsir Katin is also likely to set up a webpage with
the materials included in the CD. Thereby the authors of the project
want to get in touch with the people displaced from Maragha, who are
now living in different parts of the world, and find out details of
those events to get the complete picture of the genocide.
The process will also enable the people of Maragha to defend their
rights and to get compensation later.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
