KARABAKHIAN ETHNOGRAPHER ANSWERS TO AZERI JOURNALIST

STEPANAKERT, JUNE 8. ARMINFO. “I think, our ancestors acted rightly
using in epitaphs phrases which help us today to answer many questions
and to prove both your wrongfulness and deliberate distortion of all
those created by Armenians-Karabakhians”, stated a Karabakhian
ethnographer Hrachik Harutyunyan commenting on an article in “The real
Azerbaijan” newspaper, the author of which condemns Karabakhian
authorities in “changing the names of overwhelming quantity of NKR
villages, particularly, town Shushi”.

“A am forced to ask both you and your authorities the same question:
what was the necessity and what aim purposed the Azeri side when
changed the Armenian ending of the primordial Armenian town Shushi
from “i” to “a”? I would like to note that names of tens of Armenian
villages in Karabakh were changed to Azeri manner by the same method”,
Harutyunyan said.