On this day 32 years ago pogroms against Armenians in the town of Maragha in Nagorno-Karabakh became yet another part of Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic cleansing, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on the anniversary of the killings.

“More than 50 civilians were brutally killed, as many were taken captive, the rest of the Armenian population of around 5000 was forcibly displaced,” the Foreign Ministry said.

“It has been documented in reports of human rights orgs such as the [Human Rights Watch] and [Amnesty International].

“We pay tribute to the memory of innocent victims & stress imperative to prevent such policies.”