Maraghar Massacre

The Maraghar Massacre happened on April 10, 1992, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

“

“Maraghar: the name of this village is associated with a massacre which never reached the world’s headlines, although at least 45 Armenians died cruel deaths. During the CSI mission to Nagorno Karabakh in April, news came through that a village in the north, in Martakert region, had been overrun by Azeri-Turks on April 10 and there had been a number of civilians killed. A group went to obtain evidence and found a village with survivors in a state of shock, their burn-out homes still smoldering, charred remains of corpses and vertebrae still on the ground, where people had their heads sawn off, and their bodies burnt in front of their families. 45 people had been massacred and 100 were missing, possibly suffering a fate worse than death. In order to verify the stories, the delegation asked the villagers if they would exhume the bodies which they had already buried. In great anguish, they did so, allowing photographs to be taken of the decapitated, charred bodies. Later when asked about publicizing the tragedy, they replied they were reluctant to do so as ‘ we Armenians are not very good at showing our grief to the world’. (Ethnic Cleansing in Progress, War in Nagorno Karabakh, by Caroline Cox and John Eibner, Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, Zürich, London, Washington, 1993)

”

Other websites

• Photographs of the Maraghar Massacre Archived 2022-03-01 at the Wayback Machine – Warning: Graphic Content
• Christianity Today Article Archived 2002-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
• UK House of Commons report
• Survivors of Maraghar massacre: It was truly like a contemporary Golgotha many times over