2024-03-20 04:35:55
Public and political figure Avetik Chalabyan wrote on his Facebook page.
“Dear friends,
As you know, the RA Ministry of Education and Culture has recently been consistently implementing various initiatives to devalue our national identity and various national institutions. With this logic, it put into circulation the Armenian history textbook of the 7th grade, which caused a lot of noise and caused sharp opposition from experts, removed the subject “History of the Armenian Church” from the general education program, and is now trying to dismantle the Brusov Linguistic University and the innovative “Goi” theater by illegal means. , etc.
Another anti-national initiative has now been added to the list of this parade, to replace the subject “History of Armenians” with the subject “History of Armenia”. To the untrained eye, the difference does not seem big, but in fact it is huge: Armenian history covers the history of our nation from Hayk Nahapet to Urartu, all the Armenian kingdoms, including the glorious kingdom of Cilicia, the rich history of the Armenian Diaspora for many centuries, and much more, while Armenia in its current form was formed only during the last two centuries, mainly as a result of the Armenian Genocide and the dispossession of our nation, and is a very small part of our nation’s history.
The current government is trying to belittle our historical past as much as possible, and to convince all of us that this 29,800 square kilometers is the maximum that our nation can claim for now and in the future. Now this absurd draft law is on the government’s e-draft website, in its style, the current government is trying to create visibility that it is going through a democratic procedure and has public support.
Yesterday I already voted against this initiative, as did a number of my friends, and I want to ask everyone who is not indifferent to the past and future of our nation to also enter this website, register and vote against this next anti-national manifestation. You can also leave comments on the website, according to the current legislation, the project submitter is obliged to address them officially, so don’t regret your time and effort, and also leave comments on the website.
I am attaching the link and thank you in advance for all the responses.”