Fact of Armenians Being Indigenous in Karabakh Recognized by Innumerable Transactions of World Historical Science

PanARMENIAN.Net - The fact of Karabakh Armenians being indigenous is recognized by innumerable transactions of both Armenian and world historical science, stated Plenipotentiary Minister and Extraordinary Envoy, full member of the Academy of Military Sciences (Moscow), scientific expert on counter-terrorism of US National Defense University (Washington) Hayk Kotanjyan. Spokesperson of the Defense Minister of Armenia, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net «I leave consideration of the details of that issue to professional historians. I will limit myself only to mentioning that 1600 years ago the first school of Armenian script was founded in the territory of Karabakh personally by Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian script,» the expert noted.



At the same time, he added, it is evident to the world science that Turkic ancestors of contemporary Azeris were thousands of kilometers away from the South Caucasus. The matter concerns the verity of scientifically proved facts.



Answering a question of facts of forging the history of Azerbaijan, known since the times of the Soviet Union, H. Kotanjyan stated, «It is a very sensitive topic that refers not only to knowledge, but also the sentiments of ordinary people. To understand the essence of the falsification that is inspired by Azeri authorities, one can limit himself to a few well-known precedents of forging the history of Azerbaijan by appropriating the historical legacy of neighboring peoples. A system of Azeri sources claiming a status of academic ones is created by an order of the political center. The propaganda of those distortions is financed. The methodology of further falsification of the history of Azerbaijan at the expense of the historical legacy the Armenians of Karabakh, as President Aliyev ordered in the Academy of Sciences that is manipulated by him, is the same.»



«Of course it would be unfair to attribute manipulation, falsification to all Azeri scholars. As of the method of slandering an object in advance, which the neighboring state has added to its arsenal, it is well illustrated by a Russian saying, according to which loud cry «catch the thief» is the best way to protect against thieves.»