 In 1992, HRW received a report that 50 Armenians had been taken hostage in the attack on Maraga.Baroness Caroline Cox, an advocate of the Armenian cause in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, who led a delegation that observed the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses, stated that after Azerbaijani forces attacked Maraga, they decapitated about forty-five villagers, burned and looted much of the town, and kidnapped about one hundred women and children.A more detailed report of the findings of Cox and Christian Solidarity Worldwide was published in 1993.