THE SO-CALLED 'GENOCIDE OF MOUNTAIN JEWS' ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED BY ARMENIANS IS FICTION Despite the negative lessons of cultivating enmity around the South Ossetian and Abkhazian conflicts and deliberations about Turkey's Platform of Stability and Security, the Azerbaijani special propaganda continues poisoning the public conscience with misinformation", Head of the Institute of National Strategic Studies of the Armenian Defense Ministry, Major-General, Doctor of Political Sciences Hayk Kotanjian said when commenting allegations in Azeri mass media that the Knesseth has made decision to investigate the "genocide" against Mountain Jews in the north of present Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century perpetrated by Armenians. According to Kotanjian, the so-called "genocide against Mountain Jews" is pure fiction imposed on the public conscience of Israel and Jewish Diaspora by Azeri special propagandists and their foreign partners. "These actions aim to undermine the friendship between Jewish and Armenian peoples having very much in common in their centuries-old history. Besides the gift to support their century-old cultural and historical identity and develop the intellectual potential of hundreds of generations, our people are united by the disastrous hardship of Genocide and Holocaust, as well as by the experience of heroic surviving and rebirth of statehood as the Republic of Armenia and the State of Israel", he said. One thing is clear: the falsifiers' fuss is immoral, actually, it is sneering at the memory of Armenians exterminated by gangs of Caucasian Tatars in places of century-old friendly co-existence of Armenians and Mountain Jews. Experts of invention of "genocide" are trying to pass off the remains of these Armenians, victims of the massacre, as the remains of Jews allegedly killed by Armenians. The matter concerns the crimes of the gangs which at that time exterminated in the north of Azerbaijan several thousands of Russian officers and soldiers who were returning home from the Caucasian frontline, Kotanjian said. | 
