Artsakh President`s legal team requests temporarily ban on teaching the section of the 9th grade textbook “History of Armenia” that discusses the exodus of Armenians from Artsakh
ArmInfo. Lawyer Roman Yeritsyan, who earlier, on behalf of the President of Artsakh Samvel Shahramanyan, has filed a lawsuit for judicial protection against the authors of the textbook “History of Armenia” for the 9th grade, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia and other responsible persons. As a measure to secure the claim, he is asking that a certain section of this textbook not to be taught in schools until the final court decision is made.
He has shared the content of the final parts of the claim and the motion to secure the claim filed on behalf of the President of the Republic of Artsakh against the Ministry of Education, Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Armenia and the author of the Armenian history textbook for the 9th grade, Nzhdeh Hovsepyan, on a social network.
In early September, ArmInfo reported that lawyers representing Samvel Shahramanyan had filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education, Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Armenia and other responsible persons for slanderous statements found in the textbook “History of Armenia” for the 9th grade regarding the events around Artsakh from autumn 2020 to autumn 2023.
According to lawyer Roman Yeritsyan’s Facebook post, they intend to demand a refutation of the false information about the president that is contained in the textbook. Particularly, as Yeritsyan explained, this specifically involves phrases in the textbook as “Samvel Shahramanyan signed a decree on the dissolution of Artsakh” or “Shahramanyan is the one who betrayed the NKR.” The lawyer is sure that in this way the Armenian authorities intend to shift the responsibility for the surrender of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the Artsakh leadership. “We are determined to fight against all distortions of history and attempts to mislead the new generation. The people of Artsakh know very well who betrayed our homeland and such formulations are unacceptable to us. But if everything remains like this, then this misinformation will be passed on from generation to generation, and over time it will be perceived as the truth. And this is in the case when the authors of the textbook have never seen this decree. In addition, the textbook does not include the events that followed this decree, and there is not a word about the president not having the authority to sign such a decree,” Yeritsyan noted.
