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  • Yerevan Hosts Maraghar-20th Century Golgotha Project Presentation

    YEREVAN HOSTS MARAGHAR-20TH CENTURY GOLGOTHA PROJECT PRESENTATION

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    September 9, 2010 - 15:40 AMT 10:40 GMT

    Xenophobia Prevention Initiative presented a new website and a film
    highlighting tragic events which occurred on April 10, 1992 in the
    village of Maraghar.

    The Maragha.org trilingual website provides information about the
    genocide of the villagers perpetrated by Azeri forces. This project is
    an attempt to show the real history of Maraghar, in hopes of preventing
    repetition of such tragedies in future. "We hope our website will
    help people realize the disastrous consequences of the war. Today,
    Azerbaijan encourages crimes, awarding a national hero title to the
    officer who killed an Armenian soldier," information security expert
    Samvel Martirosyan stressed.

    On April 10, 1992, forces from Azerbaijan attacked the Armenian
    village of Maraghar in northeastern Karabakh. The villagers awoke at
    7 a.m. to the sound of heavy shelling; then tanks rolled in, followed
    by infantry, followed by civilians with pick-up trucks to take home
    the pickings of the looting they knew would follow the eviction of
    the villagers.

    Azeri soldiers sawed off the heads of 45 villagers, burnt others,
    took 100 women and children away as hostages, looted and set fire to
    all the homes, and left with all the pickings from the looting.




    From: A. Papazian
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