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Documentary "Maragha, April 10, 1992," presented on October 2 on Armenian Public Television highlighted a number of factors which were previously shadowed, but were extremely important as they were proving that "contemporary Golgotha", as Baroness Caroline Cox named the tragedy of Maragha, was not just one of the most tragic pages of Karabakh war. The desire of the Azerbaijani side to obtain that village indispensably was explained by several reasons, foremost of which were the oil interests and the aggressive Armenophobia of the Azerbaijani authorities.

According to the former residents of Maragha, just a few kilometers far from the village was an oil tower and an oil pipeline also passed there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emibaj6UwA4

Peaceful Armenian population of Maragha village was sacrificed for the global fuel and energy interests just because the village was on the territory where the valuable hydrocarbon raw materials were produced - the so-called "white oil". Perhaps it was because of these global interests of not only Azerbaijan but also the major powers, that Maragha was never released, although the Armenian side was ready to do it in just a few days before the signing of the Bishkek protocol on ceasefire in the conflict zone in May 1994.

A second major factor that played a fatal role in the fate of the inhabitants of Maragha became the aggressive Armenophobia, as a basis of the state ideology of the Azerbaijani state, since its formation in 1918 up to date. The Azerbaijani OMON (Special Purpose Police Unit) troops, that entered the village only due to the bribed officers, a former Soviet army tank crews, besides capturing Maragha had another goal too: to commit a massacre (video) over the Armenians by the most cruel, inhumane and barbaric methods. It is not by chance that the witnesses state that among the rows of the Azerbaijani units were special people, armed with yataghan - the main weapon of the Turkish butchers that realized the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_HKO8b-fg

Their task was not simply killing, but cutting and chopping off the heads, dismembering, and inflicting stab wounds in the shape of a cross both on the corpses and the people who were alive.
According to the testimony of the villagers, Maragha had faced a particularly massive attack on February 26, 1992 as well, however the attack was repulsed by the forces of the self-defense units http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Re5gzdQBU8

The nature of the actions of the Azerbaijani forces leaves no doubt that the massacre that happened on April 10 was planned specifically for the February 26 - the day when, under Aghdam in Azerbaijan was committed another more cynical crime, this time - against their compatriots who fled Khojalu through the Humanitarian corridor opened by the Armenians. Shooting up the retreating residents of Khojalu in favor of pleasing the domestic political objectives and trying to deal with the peaceful civilians of Maragha under the cover of "Khojalu”, the political forces of Azerbaijan pursued one strategic goal: to discredit the centuries-old image and reputation of the Armenians, as carriers of the world civilization and to spread the Armenophobia worldwide.

Events in Maraga are distinguished by their unprecedented brutality even in comparison with the other acts of genocide against the Armenians in Artsakh and Azerbaijan. Elderly, women and children were mercilessly tortured and killed just for their belonging to the Armenian nation. Those who had survived were taken hostage, many with their families, with young children. The evidences of witnesses (video) about the massacre of peaceful civilians of Maragha strike the mind and go beyond the normal human logic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNJUdAsMmts

Maraga has become another crime of Azerbaijan against humanity, which however remains, unknown, unconvicted and unpunished. All the attempts of Baroness Caroline Cox and the “Christian Solidarity Worldwide Organization” to draw the attention of the international community to the genocide in Maragha, met with the cynical cohesion of carriers of oil interests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYSOMo8aug

The video placed on the Internet site Youtube depicts the wild orgy in Maragha on April 10, 1992, and shows the true face of the Azerbaijani army, which celebrates the "victory" over the helpless old men, women and children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWdn4kT5V8

The crime committed against the peaceful civilians of Maragha 22 years ago, as well as the continuation of the genocidal policy against the Armenian people by Azerbaijan at present, deprives this country of any right to participate in the negotiation process on the Karabakh issue and determine the final political status of the Armenians of Artsakh.