"ASALA IS NOT A TERRORIST STRUCTURE" HISTORIAN VLADIMIR PETROSIAN IS SURE

YEREVAN, AUGUST 8, NOYAN TAPAN. "I came to the conviction that there
is no international terrorism: who did not like a national-liberation
movement, he called it "terrorism." Vladimir Petrosian, Doctor of
History, Professor made such a statement at the August 7 presentation
of his "Let’s not Forget…"

("Chmoranank…") book. According to him, "the main author and
organizer of terrorism is the United States of America which,
to mask their own terrorism, ascribe it to others just at the
beginning." According to V.Petrosian, when writing the "Let’s not
Forget" book, he made an attempt to find out if the Armenian Secret
Army, ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia),
is a terrorist organization. Studying the ASALA activity of the last
three years, the author came to conviction that one may not qualify
this organization as a terrorist structure as the Armenian Secret Army
was created based on patriotic ideology and led a national-liberating
struggle. Even more, according to V.Petrosian, the ASALA ideology
may be put in the basis of today’s state foreign policy.