01/04/2010 16:59
Maraga Massacres should be declared loudly
“Crimes, committed in Maraga, Martunashen, and Artsvashen, are genocide, which I consider must be declared loudly,” said at today’s press conference member of ARFD, writer and a publicist Alvard Petrosian.
On April 10 1992 Armed Forces of Azerbaijan attacked Maraga village of Nagorno Karabakh and committed there a genocide, killing all civil population of the village. Death toll of the Maraga Massacre reaches 90 people, 37 others were injured, of these 21 women and 6 children.
Alvard Petrosian stressed that it’s unacceptable that issue of the 1915 Genocide is a subject for political dealing for certain nations. “It should Jews be first who recognized the 1915 Genocide, not Uruguay; actually, many Jews are recognizing the Genocide, while the state of Israel has cynically turned the issue into a subject for bargaining,” said Alvard Petrosian pointing that London maintains the same position over the issue.
“It’s unbelievable that at the background of fight for Artsakh it hasn’t been raised issue of Nakhichevan and deportation of its Armenian population; some generations saw those crimes, aimed at making the Armenian population away from these territories.”
Alvard Petrosian said hopes presence of persons like Baroness Caroline Cox of the UK will be “some more powerful gun, than the impersonal the so-called humanism.”