Maraga massacre

Maraga massacre
Maraga massacre memorial in Nor Maragha
LocationMaraga, Nagorno-Karabakh
Coordinates40°19′48″N 46°52′48″E / 40.33000°N 46.88000°E / 40.33000; 46.88000
DateApril 10, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-04-10)
TargetLocal Armenian population
Deaths43–100 killed
InjuredUnknown
PerpetratorsAzerbaijani Armed Forces

The Maraga massacre (Armenian: Մարաղայի կոտորած, romanized: Maraghayi kotorats) was the mass murder of Armenian civilians in the village of Maraga (Maragha) by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992, in the course of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[1][2] The villagers, including men, women, children and elderly, were killed indiscriminately and deliberately, their houses were pillaged and burnt; the village was destroyed.[3][4][5] Amnesty International reports that over 100 women, children and elderly were tortured and killed and a further 53 were taken hostage, 19 of whom were never returned.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ De Waal, Thomas. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through War and Peace. New York: New York University Press, 2003, pp. 175–176.
  2. ^ (in Russian) "Хронология Карабахского конфликта, 1992 год ("The Chronology of the Karabakh Conflict, 1992")." BBC Russian. Last updated August 29, 2005. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference AI2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ UK House of Commons report 1998
  6. ^ De Waal. Black Garden, p. 176.
  7. ^ Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (1994). Azerbaijan: Seven years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York: Human Rights Watch. p. 6. ISBN 1-56432-142-8.
  8. ^ Amnesty International. "Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the Karabakh conflict: Civilians Continue to Pay the Price ." Amnesty International. April 1993 (POL 10/01/93), p. 9.