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10:06 10/04/2010
Maraga – a contemporary Golgotha
“It was truly like a contemporary Golgotha many times over,” Baroness Caroline Cox described Maraga Genocide.
The morning of April 10, 1992, was bloody in Maraga, early morning appeared with violence, with Azerbaijani troops to invade the land and to commit their planed massacre. Air smelt bloody, houses were burning, injured people and parents of peaceful victims were screaming and the environment carried dead bodies and sawed parts of bodies.
“I can never forget that terrible day, when the Azerbaijani troops invaded Maraga. Maraga’s people were completely undefended; they had nothing to persist the rival. I saw a young man trying to stop an Azeri tank with a hunting gun. The most brutal scene of Maraga massacre was heads sawed from bodies. I saw myself, how the Azerbaijani sawed people, I saw burnt bodies, it seems some were live burnt. They annihilated and burnt the houses belonging to Armenians, but first they robbed them. Azerbaijani committed a crime in 1992 in Maraga against the entire humanity,” even so many years passed Caroline Cox speaks of those events with tears in her eyes.
Maraga Genocide was just an ordinary act of systematized massacre, ethnic purging and brutalities committed by the Azerbaijani party towards the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s military aggression towards Nagorno-Karabakh has been ruled by such sufferings and violence which are out of any imagination. But yet Maraga Genocide is special and separated in the range of those black backgrounds.
Valia Khachikyan, who had only by magic survived the Azerbaijani meat-grinder, tells:
“In the evening of April 9, approximately at 6 the gun started, but we were used to it. They gunned from Alazan. My husband and I were in cellar where we were living for 3 years. On April 10, at 6 in the morning the active firing started, things were bombed every second minute. About 3000 bombs were thrown towards the village. We lived it until 14:00. Then we were told that the Azerbaijani invaded the village. Those who couldn’t leave the village, have been murdered brutally, burnt or kept hostage. But those who ran away survived another hell – bombs accompanying our way…”
Azerbaijani troops robbed the houses, but if there were things they couldn’t rob they burnt together with the house owners inside. The residents have been brutally murdered – burnt, sawed up. According to different estimates 80-100 people were murdered, including 30 women, about 40 Maraga residents were injured and 63 captivated. It’s believed 9 children were also taken hostage. Many residents have been murdered while running away as parents, children and relatives witnessed. Seven of those captivated were sent back, 17 were exchanged, one was found, one managed to escape the hostage, 8 were believed to be murdered, and the rest 29 are not found.
The evidence told by the survivors (http://www.maragha.nk.am) can’t be cold heartedly heard, they tell about brutal sufferings, describe dreadful details out of any imagination. At the same time, all that is unfortunately so close and known – end of 19 and beginning of 20. Turkish-Azeri handwriting hasn’t been changed for almost one century; their character remained unchanged as well…
It’s worth reminding that Maraga is under Azerbaijan’s control and recordings from satellite show that the Azeris have robbed the stones from houses.
Yet, people of Maraga are sure they’ll be one day back to make their native land prosperous.
Տեքստում սխալ կամ վրիպակ նկատելու դեպքում, ուղարկեք խմբագրին հաղորդագրություն` նշելով տվյալ սխալը, այնուհետև սեղմելով Ctrl-Enter:
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