ALEXANDER MANASIAN: FACT OF GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS IN AZERBAIJAN HAS NOT FOUND AN ADEQUATE ESTIMATION SO FAR

Noyan Tapan

Jan 13, 2009

YEREVAN, JANUARY 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The fact of the 1990 genocide of
Armenians in Azerbaijan has not been adequately estimated so far by
either Armenia or the international community. Political scientist
Alexander Manasian expressed such an opinion at the January 13 press
conference. According to him, as a rule journalists and specialists
concentrate on the genocide committed in Western Armenia, while the
Azeri slaughters made part of the Armenian Genocide. "Turk’s goal
was to exterminate not part of Armenians, but the whole nation,
and we should always remember it," A. Manasian said.

The political scientist considers that Armenia’s diplomacy still has
much work to do in the issue of presenting the genocide of Armenians
in Azerbaijan to the international community. And in his words, Nagorno
Karabakh as the guarantor of security of Armenians in Azerbaijan should
patronize that work in the political respect. Besides, according to A.

Manasian, Armenia’s specialists should stop depicting only the
administrative territory of Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region on
the map, as Karvachar and Kashatagh are also the inseparable part of
historic Karabakh.