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Armenian President publicly rapes history: just facts

On November the 3th the President Armenia Sargsyan showed everyone how his country creates myths about the conflict in Karabakh, counting on the short memory of the international community. Documents show that out of 14 facts, voiced by Sargsyan about the history of Karabakh, 9 contain obvious lies.

How 20% of Armenians became the majority in Karabakh: 10 little-known facts

Western Zangezur, just a few generations ago densely populated by the Turks and Kurds, was transferred to Armenia “on the basis of a national majority.” On the same basis, an Armenian autonomy was created in Nagorno-Karabakh, which later served as the basis for the formation of the unrecognized “Republic of Artsakh”. Below are 10 facts, supported by documents, about the methods by which the Armenian majority was formed in these areas of the former Karabakh Khanate.

Documents reveal the secret of the “Armenian miracle” of Karabakh

For some 100 years, from a 20% minority in Karabakh, the Armenians have turned into an absolute majority in its mountainous part, making up 94% of the population. That is exactly what allowed them to obtain autonomy there, which in the 1990s also acquired the lowland part of Karabakh, becoming the “Republic of Artsakh”. How such a miraculous transformation took place in such a relatively short time? 20% in 94% of the official documents of the 19th – early 20th centuries explain.

Whom Karabakh does belong to: 10 little-known facts from the depths of history

All the above facts have relied on official documents of the Russian Empire kept in the Russian State Library in Moscow, as well as scientific works of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR held in Yerevan. Scans and more detailed information are available in the Law of precedence in Karabakh: Russian and Armenian documents dispel European myths.

The right of priority in Karabakh: Russian and Armenian documents dispel European myths

Karabakh’s ethnic history is extremely politicised. Both sides of the conflict are asserting their rights to this mountainous piece of land, including the antiquity of their own presence there. Moreover, one of the parties is supported by European intellectuals. Thus, in October 2020, at the height of hostilities in Karabakh, the French historian and writer Olivier Delorme called from the pages of Le Figaro “to stop using the word separatism against Nagorno-Karabakh and Artsakh by Armenians who have been populated by more than 90% Armenians since ancient times”.