BARONESS CAROLINE COX: REPORTS ABOUT MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS IN MARAGHA NEVER REACHED THE WORLD’S HEADLINES
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Maragha: 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, Caroline Cox and John Eibner write in
the book “Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno Karabakh,”
Karabakhrecords.info reports.
According to the material, it is written in this book that during
the Christian Solidarity International mission to Nagorno Karabakh
in April, 1992 news came through that a village in the north, in
Mardakert 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 burnt-out homes still smouldering, 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.
According to the book, at least 45 Armenians 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 about this tragedy,
they replied they were reluctant to do so as “We Armenians are not
very good at showing our grief to the world.”
According to the article, the authors of the book believe it is
important to put on record these events and the way in which they
have been interpreted and portrayed by the Armenians themselves,
and by the international media as the international public opinion
is inevitably shaped by media coverage.
The international media did not cover the massacre of the Armenians
in Maragha at all. Consequently, in the eyes of the world, the
armed forces of the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh have been made
to appear more brutal than those of the Azerbaijanis; in reality,
evidence suggests that the opposite is more likely to be true, the
authors write.
With the efforts of the Information and Public Relations Center
of the Administration of the President of Armenia the truth
about the genocide in Maragha became more widely-known and
replicated. The documentary “Maragha, 10 April 1992. An Ordinary
Genocide was shot,
the eyewitness testimonies, photos and videos taken on that
fearsome day were compiled and published on various websites
,
the website maragha.org is operating.
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the international community
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22 years passed since massacre day organized by Azerbaijani military
units against Armenian civilians in Maragha
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From: A. Papazian