An online petition organized by a group of disgruntled Armenian university students against what they call “Falsifiers of Armenian History,” alleging that there is a concerted effort to falsify Armenian history within Armenian studies programs across the US.

The group says that this petition that has been already signed by more than 1,300 Armenians is “geared against the phenomena of falsification and distortion of Armenian history. Throughout many years, the False Armenological School claims:
1. That the Armenian people are “newcomers” and “colonists” in historical Armenia and that the ancestors of Armenians arrived in Armenian Highland in the 6th century BC and destroyed the ’Urartians.’
2. They allege that the three outstanding Fifth Century historians Pavstos Buzand, Movses Khorenatsi and Yeghishe are “pseudo-historians.”
3. They state that the territory of Artsakh historically belongs to Azerbaijan, since the Turkic Azeris are the direct descendants of the Caucasian Albanians.”
The “Against Falsification of Armenian History” petition says: “There is only ONE Armenian History! We are convinced that the Armenian students in Armenia and the Diaspora must have a singular historical framework that represents genuine Armenian History and Culture. The center of Armenology can only BE and IS our Homeland - Armenia. Therefore, we demand that all Armenian Studies textbooks in the US must be approved by the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. We, the undersigned, call on the academic councils of the universities in the US to remove from circulation the book "The Armenian People: From Ancient to Modern Times."
The Armenian Investigations Program of the Michigan University and program leader, Gerard Lebardian arranged discussions on subject “The way of Karabakh after Kosovo” on January 30, 2009.Though Russian expert Andranik Migranyan and Elin Suleymanov, the Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles conducted serious discussions, organizers of the seminar took enough objective position on the issue.
Washington. Zaur Hasanov-APA.