Ara Manoogian demands refutation and apology from Azerbaijani site t

Ara Manoogian demands refutation and apology from Azerbaijani site
that printed fake letter on his behalf

4:24 10/08/2014 >> REGION

Recently Azerbaijani site “Haqqin.az” published a letter in the name
of “a Californian resident Aram Manudzhiyan.” The letter contained the
Azerbaijani interpretation of theses issued on “Manudzhiyan” website
that were circulated by the Azerbaijani propaganda. Thus, the authors
of the article argued that the U.S. Armenian had turned to the
editorial of the Azerbaijani website to voice his dispositions on the
Karabakh conflict. However, in the editorial office of haqqin.az,
while writing the fake letter, they simply screwed up with the
transcription of the Armenian family, which in the English version is
written like “Manoogian” and is read as “Manukyan,” and the name in
some parts of the text is written as “Aram”, while in other parts is
“Ara”.

The site, to which “Haqqin.az” reference to apparently for making its
fake letter more convincing, really belongs to an Armenian citizen of
the United States Ara Manoogian. However, he, surely, has not written
such a letter to the editorial of the Russian-speaking Azerbaijani
site.

Moreover, after learning about the forgery, Ara Manoogian accused the
author of the libel and the editorial of the Haqqin.az of slandering
and demanded to publish a refutation until 15 August 2014 and to
apologize.

“In the article titled “The enemy of Sargsyan writes to Haqqin.az” Leo
Maas claims that I, Ara Manoogian, have written a letter to the
editorial of the Haqqin.az titled “Even the Armenian diaspora is
outraged with the criminal regime of Karabakh.” This is a blatant lie.
There has been absolutely no contact between me and this news site or
anyone associated with them before the publication of the mentioned
article. On August 4, 2014, as soon as I learned about it, I sent a
message on their Facebook page immediately, requested to send me a
copy of the letter that I had allegedly sent them. I haven’t received
any response from them till now,” writes Ara Manoogian on his website.

Manoogian also suggests to check his remarks on his official website
and to make sure that the Azerbaijani site has really distorted them.

This is not the first time that the Azerbaijani propaganda uses the
method of “plaintive letters” on behalf of the Armenians, but usually
they are fictional characters, and therefore such tricks have little
effect on formation of public opinion. Apparently, that was the reason
why they decided to use the name of a real character in the hope that
he will not notice the fake or will ignore it, but they failed again.

Asatur Sargsyan

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress