STATEMENTS ABOUT "GENOCIDE OF MOUNTAIN JEWS" AIMED TO UNDERMINE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND ARMENIANS
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.10.2008 15:42 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Despite the bitter lesson of the South Ossetian
and Abkhazian conflicts and neglecting Turkey’s stability pact,
Azerbaijan continues to poison its public with disinformation,
head of the institute of national and strategic studies at the RA
Defense Ministry, major general Hayk Kotanjyan said when commenting on
Azeri media reports that the Knesset intends to form a commission to
investigate "the genocide of Mountain Jews" perpetrated in early 20th
century in the territory of present-day Azerbaijan, the RA Defense
Minister’s spokesman, col. Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net.
"Specialists know that the so-called "genocide of Mountain Jews
perpetrated by Armenians" is a pure invention being imposed on Israeli
public and Diaspora by Azeri propaganda machine throughout the globe,"
Dr Kotanjyan said, and added, "These actions are aimed to undermine
the centuries-old friendship between Jews and Armenians, the nations
which survived Genocide and Holocaust and managed to restore their
statehood".
"One thing is clear: this falsification is immoral. It’s nothing
but offence to the memory of Armenians slaughtered by gangs of
Caucasian Tatars in habitations of Armenians and Mountain Jews. Now,
the remains of those Armenians are presented as the remains of Jews
killed by Armenians. Actually, the matter concerns the gangs which
killed several thousands of Russian soldiers and officers going back
home from the Caucasus front during that period," he said.