GOAL OF ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IMPLEMENTED IN ARTSAKH IS
RE-SETTLEMENT OF LIBERATED TERRITORIES WITH ARMENIANS AND
KEEPING THEM ARMENIAN
05-04-2006 15:50:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, APTIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The goal
of the archeological excavations implemented during the last one
year in three places of Artsakh, in historic Tigranakert
(Martakert region), in Shushi and at the Hanberd monastic
complex (the region of Karvajar) is to again remind the
authorities of Armenia that towards those territories "the
Armenian people has a historic national obligation to make them
Armenian, and if it doesn't, the history will condemn us." Vigen
Arabian, the Executive Director of the U.S. branch of the
"Yerkir" Union of NGOs' for Repatriation and Settlement, stated
about this at the April 4 opening ceremony of the "Culture of
Borders" archeological researches' exhibition at the "Narekatsi"
cultural center. Results of joint archeological excavations in
the liberated territories of Artsakh of the "Yerkir" union and
"Kenats Tsar" cultural reseaches center are presented at the
exhibiton.
According to Vigen Arabian, the goal of those excavations
is one: "re-settlement of the liberated, especially strategic
bordering territories of the Fatherland with Armenians and
keeping them Armenian." The most part of them, including the NK
Autonomous Region, was annexed to Azerbaijan during the last 80
years, as a consequence of what not only the number of the
Armenian inhabitation reduced, but the centuries-old Armenian
culture existed in them was destroyed.
"We came to implement a propaganda and educational work in
general for an Armenian, particularly, for our state," Vigen
Arabian emphasized. He is sure that one liberates a land not
only by fighting: that war will be valued only at the time when
Armenian will live in those territories.
V.Arabian also mentioned that since 1994 if the war has not
been finished, then it has been stopped, "but we were not able
to solve that problem, we gave a huge number of victims and
economic losses for those territories." "Our people paid the
price of those territories but they are less populated today:
there is a problem of re-populating the solution of which is, in
fact, left for public organizations. And the state has no clear
policy of re-populating and keeping them Armenian yet," he
stated.
Vigen Arabian is sure that "we'll not historically be the
owners of those territories for a long time as they are empty."