THE PUBLICATION OF OUR MAPS FINANCED BY BAKU

Scholar specialized in Artsakh Shahen Mkrtchyan (also director of the gallery of A.Sargsyan and H. Kojoyan) visited the editorial office of “Hayots Ashkharh” daily to express his indignation about the situation in cartography and in general the failings in advocacy front.
Recently our interlocutor came across a map published three months back. And it was the numerous mistakes and deteriorations of the facts in this map that made him sound the alarm.

“All the maps published after the independence, are as if edited and corrected by the Turks and Azeries. When you study them you can see that they are not different from Azerbaijani cartography. Recently the map of “the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh” has been published, on the bottom of which they have represented the schematic plan of the liberation of Shushy.
First of all I should underscore that it is not mentioned in the map – who is the author, which publishing house has published it, and in what printing-house has it been printed.
I simply looked through the map and what I immediately noticed is that ¼ of Armenian living areas in NKR simply doesn’t exist in the map. I was so angry that I couldn’t even continue studying the map. I managed to study only two regions in the map. While, from 43, 17 villages of Hadrut region were not mentioned in the map, 8 villages from Martuny region were also missing. This is in case of only two regions. If I go on studying the map I will definitely say that 50% of Armenian villages are missing.
I can even enumerate those villages missing in the map. Banadsor, Taghaser, Karink, Petrosashen, Arevshat, Hayrenater, Melikashen, Tsaghkavank, Jrakuz, Mayramadsor, Taghot, Hkaku, Dudukchi, etc – in Hadrut region. Kolkhozashen, Tsovategh, Zardanashen, Varanda, Karahunj, etc – from Martuny region.
Instead on the bottom of the map, in the schematic plan of the liberation of Shushy, they have represented 33 Azerbaijani names of the villages and haven’t even mentioned about their Armenian names. If you find and ask the author of the map why he hasn’t included Armenian villages in the map, he will most probably justify himself by saying that the size of the map didn’t allow him to do so. Amazing! Then how did he manage to place 33 Azerbaijani names in the map and no place for Armenian villages?
It is really surprising how can we publish similar (pro-Azerbaijani) maps, thus giving chance to Azeries to use the deteriorated facts.
In general when you look at the maps published this and during the previous years, you have the feeling that it has been financed by Baku. They can easily show our map to the world and say, “Please, Armenians themselves mention that they don’t have any Armenian living areas in Karabakh.” This means our people take maps published in the 1960-ies and copy.
Couldn’t RA and NKR law enforcements agencies touch upon the issue of Armenian place-names?
In 1993, in one day Azeries passed a law and gave Azerbaijani names to Armenian living areas. Who is responsible for the re-establishment of the historical names of Armenian villages? It must be enshrined by the law. Whereas, for decades the village Karasny (the village of karasun (40) saints’ massacre) has been mentioned as Daghdagha. And, what is most interesting, Armenian maps also mention this name. You will not find any Karabakh inhabitant, who will say Daghdagha, instead of Karasny.”
“Can we say that the authors of advocacy materials are not specialists and have no idea about the reality?”
“The Academicians have never been in Karabakh and have no idea about it. They are absolutely not interested in Artsakh. Nowadays doctors, vets, and engineers, even those who don’t have high education, write books about the history of Artsakh. I used to write articles against Azerbaijani authors, but during the recent years I have written 22 criticizing articles against Armenian authors.
Azerbaijani authorities allocate a big amount of money for anti-Armenian propaganda. I can give a concrete example, for example Azeries have invented a false album about Khojalu, were Armenians are described as vampires. This album has been republished for 30 times, in 17 languages and spread throughout the world. And in our reality you will never find anything refuting the facts in the album.
Where are our academicians? Should they only become lively when they receive titles and medals?
KIMA YEGHIAZARYAN

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