On April 10, 1992, Azeri troops entered the recently captured village of Maraga which had a population of 500 residents after Armenian troops were forced to relocate. Over the course of the day, Azeri troops looted the town and mutilated the civilians with Armenian troops reporting finding the bodies of 43 civilians though the death count was most likely higher. According to eyewitness accounts people were decapitated, tortured (such as being dragged tied to a tank or being burnt alive), bodies were mutilated, dissected and burnt; non-combatants, among them men, women and children, were captured and taken hostage. The death toll of the massacre ranges from 43 civilians at minimum to over a hundred civilians. After the massacre was completed, the Azerbaijani troops burned the rest of the village to the ground and deported the remaining population. This event along with the pogroms from 1988-1990 remains among the bloodiest massacres to have taken place against Armenians in the first Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Here are some extra links people can look at that relate to the massacre.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmfaff/349/349ap18.htm
Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the Karabakh conflict: civilians continue to pay the price
http://maragha.org/index.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360932970_The_Maraga_massacre
https://armenpress.am/eng/amp/1011725
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraga_massacre
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It’s things like this that are so relevant in the face of their Khojaly tantrums.
They’re capable of such absolute savagery, to ever expect Armenians to live among them is utterly absurd.
If this were them they’d call it a genocide and what’s ironic is that they mock us for genocidizing what seem to be “minor massacres” (not trying to overshadow the people who died from this by the way, RIP)