in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/cc-9-4-2022/

In connection with the 30th anniversary of the massacre of the population of the Karabakh village of Maragha, Martakert region of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), carried out by the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan on April 10, 1992, the Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organizations (CC RAO) issued a special statement on April 9, 2022. We bring to your attention the full text of the Statement. Translation in English by AGA-Tribunal.info.

A Special Statement

OF THE COORDINATION COUNCIL OF RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN ORGANIZATIONS (CC RAO) IN CONNECTION WITH THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACRE OF THE ARMENIAN POPULATION OF THE KARABAKH VILLAGE OF MARAGHA CARRIED OUT BY THE ARMED FORMATIONS OF AZERBAIJAN

April 10 marks the tragic anniversary – the 30th anniversary of the massacre in 1992 of the Armenian population of the Karabakh village of Maragha, carried out by the armed forces of Azerbaijan.

The month of April reminds us of both the terrible crimes of Azerbaijan and the policy of silence on the part of the international community. Such impunity in the past years has given and continues to give the green light to more and more new crimes of the genocidal state of Azerbaijan.

Among the numerous crimes committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian population, pogroms and massacres in Sumgayit, Baku, Kirovabad and other settlements of the republic, the aforementioned massacre of Armenians in the Karabakh village of Maragha occupies a special place.

It was a brutal massacre of civilians in its cruelty. According to international human rights organizations and Armenian sources, based on testimonies, 52 people were killed, 66 were taken hostage (from a one-year-old child to a 92-year-old man). The fate of 19 hostages remains unknown to this day. Two weeks later, the village was attacked again, the population was completely expelled, the houses were looted and burned. The village was practically wiped off the face of the earth.

It is unfortunate, but true: there are very few media in Russia that have written about this inhuman crime – the massacre of civilians. It has been 30 years of hushing up in the Russian society of this egregious fact.

Largely for this reason, we have witnessed new crimes, including: the inhuman large-scale aggression of Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016 and the military aggression with numerous war crimes in 2020, organized by the Azerbaijani-Turkish tandem with the involvement of thousands of terrorist mercenaries.

Azerbaijan is making great efforts to consign the Maragha massacre to oblivion. But it is impossible to erase from the people’s memory the terrible mass crimes committed by Azerbaijan against Armenians, the massacres that were later practiced by Islamic terrorists in Syria and during the recent wars in Karabakh, namely the decapitation and dismemberment of Armenian prisoners of war and civilians.

Azerbaijan is a terrorist country that has placed armenophobia and Armenian hatred at the head of its state ideology, cannot endlessly mislead the international community and evade responsibility for carrying out Nazi and fascist ideology.

The Russian society must know the full truth about the numerous crimes against humanity committed by Azerbaijan, including the inflicted hell on civilians in the village of Maragha. Russian society must recognize this cruel truth, at least 30 years later, and condemn those responsible for the atrocities. There is no statute of limitations for such crimes.

Координационный совет Российско-Армянских организаций:

– осуждает бесчеловечные массовые убийства, совершённые вооружёнными силами Азербайджана в отношении мирного армянского населения карабахского села Марага;

– заявляет, что массовые убийства мирных сельчан, совершённые в Мараге, являются преступлениями против человечества и не имеют срока давности;

– обращается с требованием к общественным организациям России и Армении, к международным правозащитным организациям активизировать совместно с международными судебными органами деятельность по привлечению к ответственности военных преступников Азербайджана, заказчиков, пособников и фальсификаторов, обеливающих злодеяния.

Уверены в том, что справедливость восторжествует, и организаторы и исполнители военных преступлений понесут суровое наказание.

THE COORDINATION COUNCIL OF RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN ORGANIZATIONS

Ассоциация юристов «АРМРОСС»

Армянское культурно-просветительское общество «АРАРАТ»

Армяно-российское Товарищество, сообщество в соцсетях Интернет “ArmPeterburg”, общественная организация “Хачмерук” (Перекрёсток) http://crossroadorg.info/

Армянская национальная культурная автономия Зеленограда

Информационно-аналитический портал «АНТИТОПОР»

Информационно-аналитический портал https://russia-armenia.info

Информационно-аналитический портал http://russia-artsakh.ru

Культурно-просветительский центр HAYASA

Международное информационное агентство «ИА Реалист»

Независимый информационный портал Инфотека24

Русско-Армянская независимая газета «НОЕВ КОВЧЕГ»

РОО «Центр поддержки Русско-Армянских стратегических и общественных инициатив»

РОО «Общество Русско-Арцахской дружбы»

Электронный журнал «Собеседник Армении»

ПРИСОЕДИНИЛИСЬ

“ЕРКРАМАС” – газета армян России

Московская областная организация «Российское общество дружбы и сотрудничества  с Арменией»

Международная организация развития армянской классической музыки

Некоммерческое партнерство РусАрмИнфоЦентр “НАСЛЕДИЕ” (г. Ростов на Дону)

Международное движение «Новая Армения»

Московская областная организация «МАСИС»

Организация «ДИАЛОГ»

Псковская областная армянская общественная организация «МАШТОЦ»

Сочинская городская общественная организация “Народная Память”

Творческий центр «Русско-Армянского Культурного Сотрудничества» («АРАКС»)

Фонд по реставрации памятников Великой Отечественной войны имени Героя Советского Союза Унана Аветисяна

Фонд “Спитакский мемориал”

9 апреля 2022 года, г. Москва