Epress.am News from Armenia
Maragha: April 10, 1992, the third film in the series “Standard Genocide,” was launched today in Yerevan.
The author of the project, Marine Grigoryan, informed the press that on Oct. 2, the film will be shown for the first time on Armenian Public TV. According to her, they are still searching for material and if they find any new information, the film will be re-edited.
According to the film’s website, Maragha tells the story of one of the largest villages in Nagorno-Karabakh. The film incorporates witness and eyewitness accounts, along with other documentation, to show the massacres and deportation that was inflicted upon the residents of Maragha on April 10, 1992. The inhabitants of Maragha were then unable to return to their village after the cease-fire of 1994.
Grigoryan said that despite British Baroness Caroline Cox immediately leaving for Maragha the day after the tragic events, the issue has been mostly ignored by the international community.
“The events in Maragha are unique throughout the Nagorno-Karabakh war in their exceptional cruelty. This is just one proof that Azerbaijan cannot have any connection with Karabakh,” she said, adding that the site http://maragha.org is up and running and the film has been translated into Russia, English, French and Arabic.
According to the film’s co-screenwriter, Heritage Party member Larisa Alaverdyan, they don’t intend to sow enmity towards the people of the neighboring state of Azerbaijan; they simply want to draw attention to these terrifying cases.