Armenia`s authorities distorting historical memory of Armenian  Genocide 

ArmInfo. The denial of the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Armenian authorities, the desecration of the memory of martyrs recognized as saints, the silence of the church and the collaboration of a significant part of the intelligentsia, in particular historians, with mediocrities, leads to the devaluation and falsification of national memory and heritage.

This was written on his Facebook page by Armenian  historian, former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute  at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Hayk Demoyan.

"We are marking the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the  most shameful and depressing situation. The obvious patronage of some  intellectual circles of the Diaspora to a group of foreign agents who  illegally seized power in Armenia cannot go unnoticed either. As a  result, we are witnessing a new creation of a national tragedy, in  which everyone is participating, each to the best of their ability.  Everyone hopes that their silence and anti-state actions will be  quickly forgotten. But these are empty hopes.  Everything is recorded  to be passed on to future generations," Demoyan noted.

The historian noted that this is only part of the current state  policy, explaining that inciting hatred and intolerance is one of the  most effective methods of maintaining power.

"The memory of the Armenian Genocide is, first and foremost, a matter  of security and self-preservation, not a matter of ensuring border  trade or alternative exports. If you forget about it or consciously  consign this memory to oblivion, you are doomed to repeat history.  This is a simple formula: widespread apathy and dulling of the  collective instinct for self-preservation, sponsored by the  authorities and their propagandists, are aimed precisely at  destroying this instinct," the historian explained.

In this vein, Demoyan said that in the coming days he will publish  previously unpublished facts with a number of disgusting episodes  found in the Armenian Genocide Museum so that the public can see the  true identities of some people and their patrons who are making  hopeless efforts to become visible and recognizable in society. In  addition, he expressed his intention to publish short stories on the  Armenian Genocide, which in a publicly accessible format will help to  understand the real scale and consequences of the tragedy that  occurred.

"I also call on all of you to join this important ceremony of  remembrance and remembrance. Until April 24, as a sign of respect and  remembrance, read five memoirs of a survivor: just five destinies  that will help us understand and re-evaluate human life and heroism,  as well as true values, and come out of the nationwide stupor that  foreshadows a new catastrophe. I assure you that reading such books  will help strengthen the understanding that, as a people doomed to  complete destruction, we have no right to show intolerance and hatred  towards each other," Demoyan concluded.

In February, the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports  of Armenia Zhanna Andreasyan, during a session of the National  Assembly, stated that the repair of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial  Complex would not be completed by the 110th anniversary of the  Armenian Genocide, justifying this by the fact that the condition of  the complex was worse than expected.

Earlier, the Prime Minister of Armenia, at a meeting with  representatives of the Armenian community in Switzerland, questioned  the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. "We must  understand what happened and why it happened. And how we perceived  it, through whom we perceived it: how did it happen that in 1939  there was no agenda for the Armenian Genocide, but in 1950 it  appeared? How this happened, we should understand or should not  understand," the Armenian Prime Minister noted.  Independent experts  are inclined to believe that he is apparently either unaware that the  term Genocide was introduced into circulation by genocide scholar  Raphael Lemkin only in 1944, or he is deliberately trying to create a  narrative that "this issue was artificially raised by the Soviet  Union to put pressure on Turkey."