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  • Maraga Massacre
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  • The Maragha Massacre was the mass murder of ethnic Armenian civilians in the village Maragha by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992, in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The villagers, including women, children and elderly, were killed indiscriminately, their houses were pillaged and burnt; the village was destroyed and was subsequently occupied by the Azerbaijani forces. Although the estimates of the actual number of murdered ranges from 50 to 100, according to most of the sources more than 50 people were killed and a further fifty-three were taken hostage, 19 of whom were never returned.
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Date
  • 1992-04-10
Coordinates
  • 40
Title
  • Maragha Massacre
Injuries
  • Unknown
Fatalities
  • 43
Target
  • Local Armenian population
perps
  • Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Location
  • Maraga, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
abstract
  • The Maragha Massacre was the mass murder of ethnic Armenian civilians in the village Maragha by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992, in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The villagers, including women, children and elderly, were killed indiscriminately, their houses were pillaged and burnt; the village was destroyed and was subsequently occupied by the Azerbaijani forces. Although the estimates of the actual number of murdered ranges from 50 to 100, according to most of the sources more than 50 people were killed and a further fifty-three were taken hostage, 19 of whom were never returned.