ArmInfo. The dominant faction of Armenia's Parliament, Civil Contract, has declined a proposal to set April 10 as Day in Commemoration of the victims in Maraga. Aregnaz Manukyan of the opposition faction Hayastan proposed amendments to the RA Law on Holidays and Commemoration Days.
According to her, the organizers and perpetrators of the atrocities went unpunished, which served as the breeding ground for Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian policy that resulted in the war on Artsakh unleashed on September 27. 2020.
"We must show Azerbaijan has not changed its policy, which predetermines Artsakh's fate in case it remains part of Azerbaijan," she said.
In his turn, Vladimir Vardanyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, said that the Maraga pogroms were a crime against humanity that must be internationally condemned. "Each event of Armenian history cannot be a memorial day. Otherwise, we will come to a situation when each day is a memorial day," he said.
According to the 1989 census in Azerbaijan, 4,660 Armenians lived in Maraga, Martakert region, which borders on the Terter region of Azerbaijan. The settlement has been under Azerbaijan's control since 1992. On April 10, 1992, the Azerbaijani forces invaded Maraga and killed the remaining residents, 50 to 100 people, with at least 30 of them being women. The perpetrators have never been punished.
