On the night of 1 April and on the morning of 2 April, the elders, women and children of the Mataghis village of the Martakert region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic were compelled to leave the village, but they are certain that they will return soon and will continue to build their village, just like they did after the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

According to News.am, the correspondent of Artsakh’s public television company had conversations with the evacuated residents of Mataghis in Stepanakert.

“When we resettled the village in 1994, there were 22 schoolchildren. I proudly called everyone and told them to return because the village was reviving. Twenty-two years later, I reiterate that we will return, the kindergarten will be open again, and the villagers will be back to their lives,” Mrs. Nora, teacher at the village’s secondary school, assured.

Mrs. Nora is in Stepanakert with her 10 grandchildren and 3 daughters-in-law, while her three sons are in Mataghis.

“One of my sons is a school principal, and the other works at the Hydro-Electric Station…True, they’re not working for the time being, but they are overseeing the military positions of the village,” she said.

Let us mention that the residents of Mataghis have taken with them first necessity items, including clothes, beds and silverware.