Azerbaijan distorts South Caucasus history to satisfy national interests

PanARMENIAN.Net - Last year the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia warned of Azerbaijani scientific society's engagement in conjunctive rewriting of South Caucasian peoples' history with the purpose of political service to the despotic and anti-democratic state, director of the institute of national and strategic studies at the RA defense ministry, adviser to the defense minister, political scientist, senior expert of ethnic and national security political sciences, major general Hayk Kotanjian said in an interview posted at the defense ministry's web site.



"The fact of total distortion and suppression of true information in Azerbaijan is reflected in the statements of Freedom House and is described as one of the most vivid signs of the anti-democratic regime of this country. Generally, the menace is that the distortion of the facts committed under personal supervision of the head of state acquired a form of systematic destruction of the possibility to build trust between the Armenian and Azeri people. Modern and ancient history of the Armenian people published by authoritative scientific schools of the world is being falsified.



In an aspiration to undermine trust to valid Armenian sources, the "denouncers" accuse of falsification not only modern authoritative schools but also generations of historians and figures from many states who published works during centuries-long communication with the Armenian people.



The Aliyev regime ascribes to Armenians the crimes against "Azeri people" even during the times when Turkic ancestors of modern Azeris had not penetrated from Central Asia into the South Caucasus. These faked-up materials are filled with terms 'Azerbaijan' and 'Azeri'. These terms are also used for description of Indo-European and Caucasian peoples who lived in Eastern Transcaucasia long before Turks' invasion. Thus, the Aliyev regime canonizes the whole scope of centuries-old cultural and historical activities of Medians, Persians, Armenians, Talishians, Lezghins, Avarians, Udins and others as 'Azeri'. All this is nothing but attempts to poison the good neighborhood between Armenians and the heirs of their historical neighbors - the ethnic minorities of today's Azerbaijan," Hayk Kotanjian said.