ArmInfo. "Maraga 30: Unpunished and Ongoing Genocide" Scientific-Practical Seminar was held at the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the genocidal actions against the peaceful Armenian population of the village of Maraga of the Martakert region of the Republic of Artsakh and the ongoing Turkish-Azerbaijani genocidal policy.
According to the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, The seminar was organized by the NAS Institute of History, the Against Legal Arbitrariness NGO and the Center of Human Rights and Genocide Studies NGO.
This is history and we must remember it. This was the beginning of a series of genocides perpetrated by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people. Historians, all of us must work in order for this to remain in history as a memory, and that generations remember it," President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Academician Ashot Saghyan said opening the event.
In turn, executive director of Against Legal Arbitrariness Larisa Alaverdyan drew attention to the fact that the genocide happened all across Armenia. " This was committed not only by the authorities of Ottoman Turkey but also by Azerbaijan which was created by the Young Turks and Turkey," she noted.
And director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, academician Ashot Melkonyan added that what happened 30 years ago one circle of the entire chain of genocidal policy. " The genocidal policy directly passed on from the Ottoman Empire to the First Republic of Azerbaijan, it had other manifestations in the Soviet years, and during the third Republic we saw what manifestations happened by Azerbaijan in 1991-1994, in April of 2016 and in 2020. The Maraga genocide was left in the shadow. It was an example of a war crime against the peaceful population. This seminar will be another occasion to study in depth and note the entire genocidal policy which Azerbaijan inherited from Ottoman Turkey and continues to this day," the historian noted.
During the conference, the grounds and possibilities for applying to the International Court of Justice in the case of the Armenian Genocide, the continuation of the Armenian Genocide and the responsibility of the Turkish-Azerbaijani authorities, the problems of Armenians and Armenian communities in the post-war situation were discussed. The Maraga 1992: Golgotha of the late 20th Century film was screened.