Erasing history

There is a story on the Azg website about the Ud minority in Azerbaijan. "Christian minority in Azerbaijan gets rid of Armenian eyesore"
Afraid of being associated with Armenians, they have erased Armenian inscriptions on their church and tombs.

"Armenian-sounding city names have been changed, streets named after Armenians have been replaced with politically correct Azeri surnames, while Soviet history glorifying Armenian communist activists has been rewritten in school textbooks. But the white-stone church in Nij, some two centuries old, had not been tampered with until the Udi undertook to reconstruct it with help from the state financed Norwegian Humanitarian Enterprise (NHE)", France Presse informs.

According to the article, "The Udis are the last surviving tribe of the Caucasus Albanians, a group unrelated to the Mediterranean Albanians, whose Christian kingdom ruled this region in medieval times before Turkic hordes swept in from Central Asia in the 13th and 15th centuries."

In a twist to the story, they insist that the Armenian inscriptions were fakes, put there by Armenians in the 1920s so they could make historical claims to it.

Read the full article.

Posted by Matt on February 23, 2005 | TrackBack | Email to a friend