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    THE HISTORIAN AND THE POLITBURO

    http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/11/28/134977/
    NOVEMBER 28, 2012 13:37

    The textbook of the Armenian history for universities expresses
    the current government's position presenting the events of March 1,
    2008, and in that sense, naturally, it cannot aspire after laurels for
    accuracy. I wouldn't even call it the official position, because there
    are ridiculous, I would even say, irresponsible claims in the textbook
    that cannot be found in any official document, in the criminal case
    in particular. For example, "Firearms were used by both sides during
    the clashes, as a result of which 10 people died." One should probably
    have some substantial evidence that the opposition or the protesters
    used firearms to record it as a historical fact, but there is no
    such evidence. The whole text of the book about the events of March 1
    testifies to the fact that both Edik Minasyan and all "contributors"
    were not conscientious and paid tribute to the Soviet conformism.

    However, I am more interested in another issue - is there such a
    thing as "historical truth." And even if there is, can it exist,
    when the event took place only 4 years and 6 months ago, and all the
    interested parties are still engaged in politics, and as we all know,
    that creates very unstable situations. If this book had been written
    by the Armenian National Congress (ANC) member, he would have written,
    for example, that Levon Ter-Petrossian's supporters claimed that the
    bodyguards of famous oligarchs, including those of Gagik Tsarukyan,
    participated in the slaughter of March 1. Or would he have erased that
    sentence "urged" by the ANC politburo today? And tomorrow, after a
    "change of situation," the same lines would have most probably been
    written again. If the historian should be guided by an order of some
    "politburo," can he hand over accurate information to the generations
    to come?

    However, let me try to complicate the issue further and honestly
    answer the following question - and if I had been instructed to write
    that part of the history book, would I have been able to disregard my
    own emotions? For example, the fact that Robert Kocharyan closed A1+,
    or that from March 1 to 20 of the same year, he banned the work of all
    normal news agencies. The one who writes history is a human being, and
    if he went through that period of time he writes about one way or the
    other, he by no means can avoid putting his emotions into the writing.

    I think the important thing is that everyone talks on his behalf and
    not on behalf of his "politburo" or political team. Otherwise, we will
    have what we have in the notorious textbook of the Armenian history.

    ARAM ABRAHAMYAN




    From: A. Papazian
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