NKR NA DEPUTY: MARAGA HAS BECOME A MONSTROUS MANIFESTATION OF ANTI ARMENIAN POLICY PURSUED BY AZERI LEADERSHIP
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 10 2007
A presentation of a CD containing video and photo materials, archive
documents, publications and evidences of eye-witnesses of peaceful
population’s mass carnage committed by the Azeri armed formations
in the village of Maraga of the NKR Martakert region was held at the
Artsakh State University.
The disc was shot on the initiative of the Karabagh journalists Narineh
Aghbalian. It was arranged for the 15th anniversary of tragic events
in Maraga. The archive materials in Armenian, Russian and English
were given by the NKR MFA and other organizations.
The representatives of the Republic leadership, public and journalists
came to the presentation. Opening the measure the Chair of the NKR
Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee Vahram Atanesian noted Maraga
had not been weapon emplacement and presented no danger for the Azeri
party, and mass crimes had been committed against peaceful citizens.
"Maraga has become a monstrous manifestation of the Azeri leadership’s
anti Armenian policy", the deputy underscored.
Comparing various lists it was ascertained that 81 peaceful inhabitants
was killed in Maraga and 67 people became hostages. The fate of many
of them has not been determined yet.
In the course of the presentation NKR National Assembly Chair Ashot
Gulian stressed slaughter in Maraga corresponded to genocide by all
the parameters.
In his words, Azerbaijan’s policy towards Armenians has not been
changed.
By the deepness of human tragedy, extent of cruelty, number of
persons subject to violence and taken hostages tragic events in the
Karabagh village of Maraga occupy peculiar place in the annals of the
Karabagh national and liberation movement, so the world public should
be informed of it. The idea ran all through the CD’s presentation,
NKR MFA Press Office reports.